Speculation — faith — hope
These are cultural artifacts created texts by students in the undergraduate Comparative Literature course Back to the Future, as well as by graduate students in the CLC course The Future. Both courses, taught by Professor Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla, invited the creators here included, to think about how the “the future” has been imagined in ancient texts and in ever more contemporary and global visions of “things to come”. The students thus came to consider canonical spiritual and philosophical texts that help us imagine “time” itself, as well as humanity’s place within the cosmos, as tinkerers, voyagers, exiles, builders of utopia, or destroyers of worlds.
Paradise Found: Confessions of a Light Bringer
By James Hogg
Before we begin…
Let’s establish some ground rules. The author of this story was raised in the United Church, a Protestant branch of Christianity. As such, the author would claim to have some understanding of Christianity, as well as claims the right to provide analysis and criticism of the faith and its institutions.