To Think Christianly Quotes

“study centers provide a compelling example of embodied presence, holistic care, and openhanded hospitality that contributes to the flourishing—mind, body, and spirit—of those who pass through their doors and the university community as a whole.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“an anticipation of the flourishing that will accompany the coming of God’s kingdom.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Though the church lives in the tension of the “now and not yet” or advent structure of life as it waits for the consummation of God’s kingdom described in Revelation 21, it does not wait passively but continues to nurture the content of the kingdom—righteousness, peace, and joy—as described in Romans 14:17.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“a commitment . . . to the highest ideals and practices of human flourishing”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“the larger goal of nurturing holistic flourishing at the universities they serve.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“expressions of beauty, truth, and goodness that derive from sources that are not explicitly Christian.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“the Bonhoeffer House”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“study center movement that is still deeply committed to spiritual formation and hospitality.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“defensiveness against,” “relevance to,” and “purity from.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“When Trotter headed up an extensive renovation in the mid-nineties, he and the architects made sure that the building would, like L’Abri, have fireplaces, a larger kitchen, and plenty of room for both large lectures and one-on-one conversations.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Through these opportunities L’Abri and Regent College helped a generation of young people, especially young evangelicals, develop a more expansive theological, cultural, relational, and vocational imagination.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“the Consortium of Christian Study Centers’ twenty-eight member study centers,”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“establishing inviting and hospitable places for study, formation, rest, and relationship on the edge of some of the nation’s most elite public and private universities.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“The McKean Study Center”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“By 2011 many of the individuals leading study centers represented by the consortium were similarly convinced that the path forward was more a matter of faithful presence through deeply rooted, engaged, and hospitable relationships and institutions than it was about the apologetics or cultural bluster that had defined some aspects of the movement in its early years.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“two opposing temptations—syncretism and isolationism”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Hunter’s concept stressed both faithfulness to Christ and presence in one’s immediate context,”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Space became not just functional but also theological.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Trotter planned for learning to take place on a holistic dimension that involved the head, heart, and hands.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“to “develop each other spiritually, physically, emotionally and intellectually.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Like L’Abri and Regent, the Center for Christian Study was developing a learning community that sought to develop both the heart and the mind.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“a “town and gown” church.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“According to the article’s authors, “the emergence of evangelical Christianity into a position of respect and power” was “the most significant—and overlooked—religious phenomenon of the ’70s.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“As early as 1974, he had urged Christians to counter modern education’s “lack of a coherent and consistent world-view” by forming “new educational institutions to serve the people . . . at all levels” and by working to found “institutes . . . planted right next to the secular school or university.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“creating a space where “the pursuit of truth in all areas of life” could take place,”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Courses now fell into three primary categories—biblical studies, theology, and Christian perspectives”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“the practical outworkings of the theological concept of common grace—which noted that God was at work in and through all people, Christian and non-Christian alike”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“For Hunter, “a theology of faithful presence first calls Christians to attend to the people and places that they experience directly. . . . The call of faithful presence gives priority to what is right in front of us—the community, the neighborhood, and the city, and the people of which these are constituted.”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

“Edith tried to downplay the allure of L’Abri in early 1972, noting, “L’Abri is not a rosy glow of excitement and perfection, not even for one day,”
― Charles E. Cotherman, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement