Spring Session: Weeks 1&2
World Film
Bruce Marchfelder Writer, Director, Producer.
BA (Haverford College), MA (Yale University).
Paul Stevens
Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology and Leadership, Regent College. BA, BD, DD (McMaster), DMin (Fuller).
Bruce is an award-winning screen writer and director. His first film, The Artist’s Circle, was selected for the 53rd Cannes International Film Festival. Bruce sits on the Advisory Board of the Film Forum for the Vancouver International Film Festival and has chaired the feature jury for the Leo award. From 2001 to 2005 he ran the Directing Program at the Vancouver Film School.
Paul’s primary focus is empowering the whole people of God for service in everyday life and the world. He is a craftsman with wood, words, and images and has worked as a carpenter, a student counsellor, a pastor, and a professor. Among his books are Down-to-Earth Spirituality; The Other Six Days; and Work in Progress (forthcoming).
A special crafts exhibition will be on display in the Lookout Gallery, May 12–June 24, 2010. 6
In this course, we will explore the revelatory kinship of theology and film. Our approach will be historical, studying representative works of international filmmakers whose accomplished use of the language of film—its grammar of light, sound, setting, perspective, and montage— results in motion pictures that have the power to evoke the transcendent, to inspire faith, and to create occasions for divine encounter.
May 10–21, 8:30-11:00am INDS 508 2 or 3 graduate credit hours
Heart, Hands, and Head: Crafts, Creativity and the Spiritual Art of Making Things In an age of mass-produced, machine-made, and computer-generated products, it is vitally important to consider the meaning, theology, and spirituality of things that are hand-made, heart-made, and home-made. Far from denoting something second-class, these terms point to something fundamentally human and deeply Christian. In this course, we will consider a broad range of activities that produce hand-made and heart-made things—ranging from weaving, knitting, homemaking, and wood-working to gardening (and many others). We will examine them biblically, theologically, and vocationally. The professor will be assisted by many guests who, through an interview process, will enable participants to see the connection between faith and work. Each participant will be encouraged to bring something to the class that they have made or to create something during the course.
May 10–21, 1:15-3:45pm APPL/SPIR 505 2 or 3 graduate credit hours