Influencing Today's Professors Cultivating Tomorrow's Professors Today The Problem The Solution

Our mission is to influence the university and world for Christ by increasing the prominence of the Christian worldview in all academic disciplines by:

Influencing Today's Professors...

• Aiding Christian faculty in fulfilling God's call to manifest Christ and the Christian worldview on campus and through their scholarship
• Offering non-believing faculty a plausible and compelling explanation of the Christian faith

Cultivating Tomorrow's Professors...

• Providing instruction in Christian thought and encouraging students to think about their studies from a Biblical worldview
• Identifying students called to serve Christ as scholars and mentoring them through their academic training

Today: Universities are the centers of influence

We must do the same as the Apostle Paul did in his day: target the centers of cultural influence so as to see the gospel and Christian worldview extended throughout the nations. However, today the ultimate centers of influence are not our cities, but our universities. As J. Gresham Machen observed, "What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires."¹

The Problem: Universities marginalize the Christian worldview

Unfortunately, the Christian gospel and worldview are often marginalized on the university campus today. Thus primarily non-Christian worldviews are vigorously expressed and defended, giving the impression that these are the only viable options and the Christian worldview is not even worthy of consideration.

The solution: Integrate the Christian worldview and academic inquiry

The solution today is again taking the Christian worldview to the centers of cultural influence—our universities—and asserting it as true. In Paul's words we are to "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God...."

1 J. Gresham Machen, The Scientific Preparation of the Minister, delivered September 20, 1912 at the opening of the 101st session of Princeton Theological Seminary. Reprinted in The Princeton Theological Review, Vol. XI, 1913.