The Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton is the only institute for advanced study in the world dedicated to Theology. CTI was modelled (albeit on a much smaller scale) on the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which was at the time of our founding dedicated to Mathematics, Physics, and Economics, and at which Albert Einstein was a Professor and Robert Oppenheimer was Director. As such, CTI aims to bring Theology at the very highest academic level in the world into broad inter-disciplinary conversation within universities on the major intellectual and global issues of our time.

Theology involves the deep intellectual understanding that reflects upon and accompanies religious faith. Theology does not just observe faith or religion, but enters into critical and constructive dialogue with faith on personal, communal, and societal levels. Since everyone (even those who reject the idea of God) operates with a concept of God, the divine, or of what the deepest reality of the world is, CTI seeks both to unpack what this might mean for the issues of the world today and how wisdom about our understanding of God and faith might resource the major questions we face. We don’t just analyse the issues and problems of the world; we seek to provide interventions and wise solutions for the world.

Be transformed by the renewing of your minds (Romans 12:2)