Making Good Symposium

This is the Last Event in a Week of Stimulating Conversations on the Gospel & the Imagination with Trevor Hart. All events are FREE and open to the public

Making Good: Creation, the Arts & the Kingdom: An Afternoon Symposium with Trevor Hart & William Dyrness
When God made the world it was good. What role does humanity have in making good? 

Afternoon's Schedule:

2:00 pm   Introduction—Matt Jenson, Torrey Honors Institute

2:15 pm    Keynote Address # 1---Trevor Hart, St. Mary’s College

3:00 pm    Keynote Address # 2---William Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary

4:00 pm    The Promise and Peril of Human Making: Five Perspectives     

5:00 pm    Roundtable Conversation—Matt Jenson, Moderator

5:45 pm     Closing Remarks---Trevor Hart

Trevor Hart, CCCA Fall 2013 Visionary-in-Residence, 

Founder of the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, St. Andrews University, Scotland"Trevor Hart is Rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church in St Andrews, Scotland, and an Honorary Professor in the University of St Andrews. From 1995-August 2013 he was Professor of Divinity in the University, and founded the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in November 2000 with Jeremy Begbie, serving as its first Director from 2000-2013. He continues to participate in ITIA's research seminar and other activities and to supervise some PhD students within the Institute. Hart has just published Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature and is currently completing his three-volume “Poetics of Redemption,” to be published by Baylor University Press. The first volume, Making Good: Creation, Creativity and Artistry will be published in Spring 2013. Biola is pleased to welcome Dr. Hart to our campus for a stimulating week of conversation and instruction."

William Dyrness, Professor of Theology and Culture, joined the Fuller Theological Seminary faculty in 1990 and served as Dean of the School of Theology from 1990 to 2000. He teaches courses in theology, culture, and the arts, and was a founding member of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts.

Dyrness has over 30 years of teaching experience in the U.S., the Philippines, Kenya, and South Korea. He has published work in a variety of fields, including theology and culture, apologetics, theology and art, and global missions. His recent works include Poetic Theology (Summer 2010), A Primer in Christian Worship (2009), the Global Dictionary of Theology (co-edited with Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, 2008), Senses of the Soul: Art and the Visual in Christian Worship (2008), Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (2004), Visual Faith (2001), Changing the Mind of Missions with James F. Engel(2000), and The Earth is God's: A Theology of American Culture (1997). He has also served on the national boards of Christians in the Visual Arts (Wenham, MA), 1999 to 2005, and Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO), 2000 to the present, and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is currently at work on a major research project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation on the use of visual images in worship in Christian, Buddhist and Muslim communities.

Co-sponsored by the Torrey Honors Institute and the Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts