Thriving in Diverse Contexts
An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

“What makes for human thriving?”

The Center’s current inquiry from 2023 to 2025 asks that question of global concern in an interdisciplinary exchange between theology and psychology. CTI is convening an international research group of theologians who are studying what makes for human thriving in diverse contexts in society and around the world. They are currently completing a virtual study program in psychological science led by Michael Spezio to equip them to draw on relevant scientific research papers for their theological research. They will then come into residence at the Center to focus on their writing projects on theologies of thriving, exchanging work in progress in a colloquy convened by CTI’s Associate Director, Joshua Mauldin. The Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the John Templeton Foundation for the inquiry’s study program in psychological science for researchers in Christian theology.