Deerfield, IL – The Henry Center for Theological Understanding, a ministry of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and its faculty, has been awarded a 4.2 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation to continue the Creation Project, a multi-year initiative on the Christian doctrine of creation within evangelical theology. The Creation Project aims to recover…

This third year of the Creation Project is focused upon theological anthropology, with consideration given to questions of the origin, nature, and ultimate purposes of human life. In his 1993 award-winning book, The Contemporary Christian, John Stott writes: Millions of people do not know who they are, nor that they have any significance or worth. Hence…

No topic within the doctrine of creation has been more unsettled by modern science than theological anthropology. Increased knowledge of the physical world has raised new difficulties for traditional views of the human person—are human minds as separable from the body as previous ages believed? Is belief in an immaterial soul scientifically naïve? More recently,…

Seven scholars from across the United States, representing five institutions and three disciplines, have been awarded the 2018-2019 Henry Resident Fellowship. We are pleased to announce the recipients for the upcoming academic year: James Hoffmeier, Fred Sanders, Dru Johnson, Ryan Peterson, Mary VandenBerg, Ralph Stearley, and Joshua Farris. These scholars will be undertaking research on…

The final chapter of John Stott’s classic text, Between Two Worlds, is devoted to two personal characteristics which he judged to be essential to the task of Christian preaching: courage and humility. It is through the balance of these two traits that Christian preachers can faithfully execute their stewardship as ministers of the Gospel. He writes,…

Classical Christian creeds begin with a confession about the doctrine of creation, declaring that God is “Creator of heaven and earth.” Yet, within many evangelical and Protestant contexts, the doctrine has received scant theological and pastoral attention, having been subsumed under the more important (and supposedly separable) matters of redemption and sanctification. The reemergence of…

A study in genomic sciences that was on most counts not newsworthy has made big headlines in recent days, both in the media’s initial declarations and in the ensuing reaction. The cynic in me suspects that the whole thing was predictable from the very get-go. The study, published in The American Journal of Human Genetics,…

Deerfield, IL—The Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding has awarded five recipients for our second annual Henry Resident Fellowship program. The recipients for the 2017–2018 academic year are Stephen Williams, Marc Cortez, Gavin Ortlund, Daniel Houck, and Nathan Chambers. Despite the importance of the doctrine of creation within the Christian tradition, relatively little…

  The final chapter of John Stott’s classic text, Between Two Worlds, is devoted to two personal characteristics which he judged to be essential to the task of Christian preaching: courage and humility. It is through the balance of these two traits that Christian preachers can faithfully execute their stewardship as ministers of the Gospel. He…

“In the beginning,” Genesis declares, “God created the heavens and the earth.” In contrast with other origin accounts, Genesis presents a sovereign God whose speech creates a good, beautiful, and ordered world. But how does Genesis, this “primitive” text, relate to the claims of modern science? Is Genesis to be read as divinely revealed science…

The Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School has awarded six recipients for the inaugural Henry Resident Fellowship program. The recipients for the 2016-2017 academic year are C. John “Jack” Collins, John W. Hilber, Hans Madueme, R. Clinton Ohlers, and Todd L. Patterson. The Henry Fellowship is the centerpiece…

The shadow of suffering and death casts widely over human life, not only in the midst of toil and the hope for a brighter tomorrow, but also in the intellectual struggle for the belief in a sovereign and benevolent God. While many issues wax and wane with the passing of time, the seeming futility of…