What is the place of Christianity in the life of The King’s College?

Christianity lives vibrantly and fully in the College’s curriculum and its faculty. We hold that the Bible is indispensable to knowing both the nature of creation and the way of redemption. We view the world as knowable; we view reason as one of God’s gifts to humanity; we view ourselves as stewards of both of our own intellectual gifts and of the trust that God has put in his earthly servants. We hold ourselves as accountable. We see humanity as fallen but redeemable by God’s mercy and grace in Christ. We are skeptical of utopian promises and shortcuts to human perfection. We expect the world to be a hard place and life to pose difficulties for which merely human solutions will be inadequate. At the same time, we accept the call to build the Kingdom, and we understand that to mean we must strive here and now to make the world better than it is. (Genesis 1:28, II Cor. 10:5)

The College does not have a chaplain or required chapel; and the College does not “enforce” Christian behavior through an extensive series of rules. We have an honor code and a commitment to leading worthy Christian lives. Faculty members are required to sign a statement of faith; students are not. Christianity is part of the fabric of the College, not a badge that we wear or a tradition that we merely acknowledge. The truths of Christianity and a Biblical worldview are the College’s central pedagogical basis. We take that as a warrant for an intellectually generous, open, and honest encounter with the larger world.