The Institute for Christian Studies is an interdisciplinary graduate school where:
the gospel's message of renewal shapes our pursuit of wisdom;
scholars focus on the intersection of reformational philosophy and contemporary scholarship and society.
The following Educational Creed is part of the Basis Statement created by the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship (AACS) in the late 1950s. As such, it is part of ICS's bylaws and serves as a confessional statement for ICS.
Believing that Scripture reveals certain basic principles intensely relevant to education, we confess:
that the diligent pursuit of theoretical thought in a community of scholars is essential to the obedient and thankful response of God's people to the cultural mandate. The task of the scholar is to give a scientific account of the structure of creation and thereby promote a more effective ordering of the everyday experience of the entire community.
that because of God's gracious preservation of creation after the fall, those who reject the Word of God as the ordering principle of life provide many valuable insights into the common structure of reality; nevertheless, the central religious antithesis of direction in life remains. We therefore reject the possibility of the synthesis of scripturally-directed thought with any other system of thought.