June 14 - July 23, 2021
Registration closed June 4
Join a select group of emerging adults (17-19 year olds) on a journey through classical education and theological grounding for real world innovation.
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Explore social justice through Plato's Republic and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in dialogue with your faculty and peers.
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Create a social good program, product, or service through hands-on workshops in partnership with a local business.
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Learn from local social good leaders in a weekly Founders dinner.
Purpose
Know Justice. Do Justice. Become a Just Soul.
Key Components
Entrepreneurship for the Social Good
Learn how to create and launch a justice-oriented business concept.
Study and Discourse for a Virtuous Life
Read and discuss two of the greatest texts about justice: Plato’s Republic and Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount” from the Gospel of Matthew.
Quick Facts
Who
Young adults either entering their senior year of high school or having recently graduated.
When
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays,
June 14-July 23
Mon: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Tues: 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Thurs: 3:30pm - 7:00pm
Where
FLDWRK
150 Paularino Ave Bldg. B,
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Cost
$950, inclusive of books.
Financial aid available.
Faculty
Matthew Smith, Ph.D.
Dr. Smith teaches literature, philosophy, and theology at Azusa Pacific University. He is editor of the flagship journal, Christianity & Literature, and author of several books and essays, including Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street (Notre Dame Press).
Jeff Tanner, M.Ed.
Tanner is a founder, leader, and teacher in multiple organizations. He created The Formation Method, a coaching pedagogy for leadership development, and also FLDWRK, a social good incubator and work collective in Orange County. Tanner is also a teaching Elder at Redemption Church.
Visiting Faculty
Thomas Ward, Ph.D.
Dr. Ward teaches Philosophy at Baylor University. He studied at UCLA and Oxford University and has written extensively on medieval philosophy and religion.
Jenna Reed, M.Div.
Reed holds graduate degrees from Princeton University as well as the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St. Andrew’s.
"The Summer Institute on Social Thought is an extraordinary new program for Christian youth--a perfect union of the contemplative life and the active life toward justice on earth as in heaven. With wise teaching and effective training in entrepreneurship, youth will be equipped for an adulthood of living and working for the kingdom of God."
Peter David Gross
President, The Christian Adulthood Initiative
