Christina Carnes Ananias
Assistant Professor of Theology and the Arts and Thought Leader for the CAC
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Biography
Christina Ananias is Assistant Professor of Theology and the Arts at Belmont University. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees at Duke Divinity School, where her scholarship centered on discovering parallels between patristic Christology and modernist visual artwork. At Belmont, she teaches courses in systematic and historical theology, Christian scripture, and the fine arts. She also serves as a Thought Leader for Belmont’s Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life and Faith, where she curates various projects that celebrate, nourish, and connect artists and thinkers in Christianity and the arts. She also co-curates the Bradford Gallery, a ministry of St. George’s Episcopal Church. Examples of her writing can be found in Naming the Spirit (IVP, 2025), Theology, Modernity, and the Visual Arts (Brepols, 2024), and Art Seeking Understanding (Baylor UP, 2023).