Promoting Integrated People, Churches, and Inquiry
Integration is the way forward
Blueprint 1543 promotes integrated people, churches, and inquiry. Which people? Sciency people! “Sciency” people are those who work in science or tech areas or who find the work of the sciences particularly fascinating and useful.
(1) Integrated people: We support growth in personal faith and how that faith motivates and influences their scientific careers. Likewise, we want to see more theological-minded people of faith adopting the tools of the sciences to enrich their scholarship and intellectual leadership of their faith communities.
(2) Integrated churches: We encourage churches to nurture integrated sciency people and to welcome their contributions to strengthening church communities and their missions. That is, we encourage scientists and their intellectual contributions to be integrated into the life of churches.
(3) Integrated inquiry: We assist these well-integrated, sciency people in pioneering areas of scholarly inquiry that bring together the intellectual resources of Christian theology, philosophy, and the sciences. This creative, integrated inquiry will make progress on problems that matter to the life of the Church and the flourishing of the world.
More integrated sciency people, churches, and inquiry, will improve the health of the Church and the science and tech sphere. They will be better positioned to address the challenges that face the world now, and to reduce avoidable challenges of the future.
