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Upcoming Events
Sat Aug 23, 2008
BL1 - Where did the Bible Come From? (Oral & Textual Sources)
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Sat Aug 23, 2008
to Sat Dec 06, 2008
AREOPAGUS : Can We Trust the Bible?
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Sun Aug 24, 2008
PT3b.Samuel-Kings
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Sun Aug 24, 2008
KAIROS: Bibliology - The Scriptures
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Fri Sep 05, 2008
to Sun Sep 07, 2008
PT-Asia
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Welcome
Thinking Things Through
in a Theological Safe Space
ACT is a non-profit organization based in New York City. We provide a climate of inquiry within a sanctuary of doubt that we call a theological safe-space (TSS) for people of good will to encounter the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
What Do We Do
We seek to be a trusted resource for Christian organizations attempting to understand the roles of the natural sciences and philosophy in their ministries.
Let us earn your trust - to be the adoptive authority of choice for both believer or skeptic seeking an informed but humble approach to the human understanding of divine reality.
Here are the 5 elements of our approach to think things through in a theological safe space:
1. Invite Christians to consider the reasons for and the implications of their belief and we invite skeptics to consider preciselywhat their reasonable objections are.
2. Address the challenges posed by the sciences and the religious pluralism. What is the role of the sciences in making sense of reality (theological reflection and scientific discovery share a common source in divine disclosure)? What is Christianity's relationship to other religions and what can we learn from the wisdom of other faith traditions as we try to understand our own?
3. Promote interdisciplinary research for a transformative renewal of the mind, to make the message of the Christian Bible relevant to the urgent questions of the day. How do the sciences, history, the arts, philosophy and ethics (SHAPE) have influenced our interpretation of the biblical texts as we engage the world of commerce, academia, media, politics and sports (CAMPS).
4. Seek to formulate a Christian worldview by thinking things through, theologically. We engage the pressing concerns in the cultural spheres of influence (CSI) and human inquiry (CSHI).
5. Develop globally relevant and conceptually holistic discipleship teaching programs. Through carefully thought out apologetics, effective evangelism, missions and discipleship can thrive.
a. In the sciences, we inquire into their methodologies to distinguish science from scientism and evolution from evolutionism. In history, we teach global, rather than a Eurocentric Christianity. In the arts, rather than their indulgence, we teach their origins, redemptive power, and nexus to worship. In philosophy, we scrutinize the justification of assumptions that buttress arguments for atheism and agnosticism. In ethics, we teach the demands of divine moral command and its implications in every decision we make.
b. In biblical theology, we teach a method of interpretation that respectfully engages other religious convictions and inferences of the sciences while remaining faithful to the confessional integrity of the texts. In an interactive and interdisciplinary study program, we employ exegesis and hermeneutics to understand the Bible as a trustworthy, divinely inspired writing of fallible, human effort.
c. And we reach out to the community of international students and scholars that they may understand how the Gospel has shaped the intellectual cultures of Western civilization to which they have come to learn.
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