Academic Year 2021-2022 / Second Semester
28 January to 27 May 2022
Fridays from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
SALVATION IN FILM IN AFRICA
With Visiting Online Professor, Fr. Peter Knox SJ
Hekima University College, Nairobi
In the Christian Scriptures, salvation refers to a specific peril threatening the prospective victims. There is usually a salvific agent, which in the Christian narrative, is always Jesus Christ. The act of salvation is followed by a restoration of fortunes, or being removed from the peril. Full-length feature film, reflecting everyday life situations, is a powerful medium of secular narrative, and is highly developed in some African contexts. The aim of the seminar is to analyze the way in which specific Anglophone African films, from the period of slavery onwards, have represented (or not) the dynamic of salvation, and discuss to what extent they are in accord with Christian narrative.
About the Visiting Professor
Peter John Knox, SJ, STL, PhD is a Jesuit from South Africa. He is currently serving as Deputy Principal for Academic Affairs at the Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya and Dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Jesuits of Africa and Madagascar. He is also Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in the same Jesuit theologate. He obtained his Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Ottawa and St. Paul University, Canada.
THE CLASS IS A JOINT COURSE WITH STUDENTS BOTH FROM LST AND HEKIMA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NAIROBI. Enrollment is limited to 20 LST students only. No cross-enrollees nor sit-in students will be allowed. Enlistment in the course will be held during the regular Second Semester registration in January 2022.
