The Artist's Innovation within their Cultural Community

Abstract

The lively participation of lecturers and students in the seminar on ‘Cultural Innovation’ gave a chance for at least a first glance at numerous aspects of the topic impossible to cover in the various presentations. We have chosen four of them: the dialectic between artist, community and innovation, seen in the light of the event of Jesus crucified and forsaken; the original perspective offered by the wide-ranging teaching of John Paul II, based on Vatican II, on the relationship between faith and culture in the kairos of our times; the mission and specific contribution of the new models of culture being developed at the Sophia University Institute in the context of recent educational theory; and finally the relationship between the media and the transmission of the culture of unity.