Houston Christian University’s Apologetics program sets itself apart from others by its interdisciplinary Great Books focus. Dr. Michael Ward, Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and Professor of Apologetics at HCU, explains our rich mix of rational and imaginative apologetics: One of the major distinctives of the MA in apologetics program here at HCU is the emphasis upon cultural and imaginative apologetics. What we’re trying to do really is a “both-and” approach: a rich mix of philosophy and history and theology and art, literature, even film and music. We’re wanting to put together reason and imagination and show how they interplay, they interpenetrate, and in many ways you can’t have one without the other. We should be both rational and imaginative. We should be analyzing the culture, but we should be contributing to the culture. We should be producing our own cultural artifacts–our own plays and novels as well as our own arguments and perceptive analyses of culture. So that’s what I mean when I talk about the rich mix of the program; we’re wanting to have a “both-and” approach, not the “either-or.”
