Permanent training program in
The search for meaning in contemporary arts and literature*.
*Program in Christianity and Contemporary Culture
16 weeks
from February 9, 2026
to June 9, 2026
12 ECTS credit
Campus Madrid
University of Navarra
Face-to-face classes:
Monday 15:00-18:30
onlineclass :
Thursday 20:00-21:00
2.040€
possibility of applying bonuses and scholarships.
*Program partially subsidized by FUNDAE. Institutional agreements.
How are Truth and Beauty articulated in the search for Transcendence? How much of contemporary visual culture is Christian? Is it possible to identify the message of the Gospel in modern artistic production? How does culture influence our way of looking?
The link between aesthetics and transcendence, the treatment of the great human themes in literature or contemporary visual production and the dialogue established between the Bible and art during the last two millennia are some of the issues addressed in this course.
Content
4 subjects
Beauty, art and transcendence
The Bible in literature and the arts
Christianity and contemporary visual culture
Contemporary literature and the great human themes
Faculty & Advisory Board
Nieves Acedo
Director of the Master in Curatorial Studies and professor of Anthropology, design Ethics and Theory of the Arts at the University of Navarra.
Raquel Cascales
Professor at the University of Navarra
Francisco Varo
Full Professor programs of study Biblical Studies and Church History at the University of Navarra, Spain
Juan Chapa
Professor of New Testament at the University of Navarra, Spain
Marta Carrasco
Professor of Art History and Humanities at Camilo José Cela University.
Javier Ortiz-Echagüe
Professor of History of Art at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid
Pablo Alzola
Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Rosalía Baena
Professor of English Philology and Vice President for Student and International Relations at the University of Navarra
Pilar Sáez
Professor of French language and literature at the University of Navarre.
Ricardo Piñero
Full Professor of Aesthetics, professor of the Master's Degree in Christianity and Contemporary Culture and director of the Core Curriculum Institute.
Gabriel Insausti
Full Professor and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Navarra.
Teresa Reina
D. in Arts and Humanities, researcher at the University of Navarra.
What our students say
Faith, a current challenge
"With the classes you put your faith into play, reinterpret it, update it, and put it in the light of the contemporary world."
Intellectually restless people
"Sometimes you have like a dichotomy between Christianity and its universe of ideas and contemporary culture. It seems that they are unconnected realities. And that can't be so: We are contemporary culture."
Great masters
"The category of the professors, their closeness and availability to talk with us inside and outside the classroom... that has been a gift and a great opportunity. Also the discussion with classmates, which continues at lunch, coffee... is very enriching."
Learning in freedom
"It is very motivating, because there is great respect for any opinion and everything that is said. You have total freedom to think what you want, without imposing any ideology on yourself."
Integrating what has been learned
"I appreciate the freedom of the format. It gives you the opportunity to take what's been said in class, integrate it, run it through your filter and then come up with a response to reality that is your own response."
Master's Degree for life
"It has helped me a lot to grow as a person. To develop my own critical thinking and formulate some solid ideas about issues that the real world then presents to me."
What teachers say
Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
"Christianity has always had the need to dialogue with the culture of its time."
Raquel Lázaro
"We seek to avoid simplifications and provide clues for everyone to find their own answers."
Juan Luis Lorda
"Christianity is part of the past, of our roots and of our contemporary culture."
Ricardo Piñero
"Reason and faith merge at the heart of Christian humanism, giving rise to a full understanding of the person."
Schools and research Centers involved
School of Philosophy and Letters | School of Theology | School of Science | School of Medicine | School of Education and Psychology | School of Business and Economics |Core Curriculum Institute | Institute for Culture and Society | group CRYF-Science Reason and Faith |research Ethics committee | Church History Institute | group History of Spain in the 20th Century | group de research Virtue Ethics in Business | University of Navarra Museum | GEAC group on Aesthetics and Contemporary Art | IESE Business School
Master's Degree in Christianity and Contemporary Culture
CERTIFICATION OF THE degree scroll
The course The Search for Meaning in Contemporary Arts and Literature is certified as a Permanent training Program (12 ECTS credit), and is one of the four courses that make up the Master's Degree in Christianity and Contemporary Culture of the University of Navarra.
All these courses are independent of each other. Agraduate student or university graduate who completes all four courses and makes his Master's Degree Final project (12 ECTS credit), can obtain the degree scroll Master's Degree of Permanent training in Christianity and Contemporary Culture (60 ECTS credit). (60 ECTS credit).
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