New MA in Christianity & The Arts
New MA in Christianity & The Arts. Jun 2010, PR 139/10 A new MA in Christianity & The Arts was launched last night by Professor Rick Trainor, Principal of King's and Dr Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery. The product of collaboration between one of the country's most distinguished departments of Theology & Religious Studies and a world-class art gallery, the MA is the first of its kind. Uniquely, the programme will enable students to work across disciplinary and specialism boundaries, and in particular to explore simultaneously the art-historical, church-historical and theological dimensions of Christian art - approaches which are generally pursued in isolation from one another. This programme will give students a stimulating and privileged understanding of one of London's - and the world's - greatest treasuries of art, and help them to think theologically about other strands of the arts too. There will be two modules available that examine literature, as well as opportunities to take modules from elsewhere in the School of Arts & Humanities in order to explore musical, dramatic and cinematic traditions (all of them media in which Christian ideas have found expression). The National Gallery collection will be at the heart of what students encounter in the MA, and much of the teaching will be provided on the Gallery floor.
