Short Descriptions (click on title to go directly to center's website)

The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship:

The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship was founded in 1976 to be a place where committed Christian thinkers from across the academic disciplines could reflect and write about pressing issues of public concern. Over the years its support has enabled scholars to produce some sixty books, several of which have gone into second editions, as well as numerous articles, lectures, conferences, and public presentations. The vision of its founders and the efforts of its participants have made the CCCS a recognized leader in the growing international project of intentional, self-critical Christian scholarship.

The Calvin Center for Innovation in Business

The new center's goals are to foster educational excellence, promote experiential learning, and to engage with broader business communities. Pursuant to those goals, the center will fund faculty scholarship and student research projects, sponsor conferences on business-related themes and work at developing ties to various business entities in the local area and beyond.

Calvin Institute of Christian Worship:

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship aims to promote the scholarly study of the theology, history, and practice of Christian worship and the renewal of worship in worshiping communities across North America and beyond.

Center for Excellence in Preaching :

The Center for Excellence in Preaching (CEP) at Calvin Theological Seminary provides continuing education opportunities and numerous online resources designed to help pastors in their vital task of preparing sermons that are biblical, authentic, contextual, and life-changing.

Center for Social Research:

The Center for Social Research (CSR) exists to assist the Calvin community in studying the world of human interactions. The CSR organizes grant-funded scholarly research projects, and believes such work is best done alongside of applied, community-based scholarly projects.

Enterprise Center:

The Enterprise Center at Calvin will foster and commercialize intellectual properties (IP). By various means it will seek to form "partnerships" with business, alumni, investors or other interested parties to commercialize products and services that are generated internally or brought to the college by third parties.

The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics:

The Henry Institute continues Paul Henry's quest to promote serious reflection on the interplay between Christianity and public life, by becoming a national forum for research, dialogue, and information on their interaction. The Henry Institute fosters the study of Christianity and politics by providing resources for scholarship, structuring opportunities to disseminate scholarly work, seeking avenues to communicate and promote such efforts to the larger public, and motivating and training future scholars to engage in such study.

Integrated Science Research Institute (ISRI)

In 2008, Calvin College launched a new institute to promote interdisciplinary science research and education. The institute is funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Calvin's Integrated Science Research Institute (ISRI) was created in recognition of the current trend in the sciences to work across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

 

The Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning:

Calvin College is now home to an institute devoted to the study and promotion of pedagogy, learning, and educational leadership from an integrally Christian perspective. The Kuyers Institute focuses on teaching and learning from pre-kindergarten through college, and will foster research and professional development. The Kuyers Institute acts as a catalyst to gather interested professionals for workshops, conferences, and research seminars, and will coordinate research projects in a variety of settings.

 

The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies:

The Meeter Center is a research center specializing in John Calvin and Calvinism. Among college and university libraries in North America, the Meeter Center's rare book room contains one of the largest collections of sixteenth-century imprints of the works of Calvin and other reformers. The Center’s rare book collection also includes a number of Reformation era editions of the Bible. The Meeter Center fosters interest in and knowledge of John Calvin and Calvinism through lectures, presentations, conferences, summer seminars and courses, and a program of fellowships for faculty and graduate students from other institutions and for pastors in the Reformed tradition.

Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity:

The mission of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity is to accomplish significant work in the following three areas. We intend to promote a deeper understanding of world Christianity, partner with study centers to strengthen Christian intellectual movements in the global south and east, and provoke a reorientation of Christian thought In the North Atlantic region toward the concerns arising from world Christianity.

Seminars in Christian Scholarship:

The seminar program seeks to promote a strong Christian voice in the academy by addressing issues of current debate within various disciplines from the perspective of a deep Christian commitment and encouraging the production of first-order scholarship.

The Van Lunen Center: Executive Management in Christian Schools

The mission of the Van Lunen Center is to provide world-class executive management education essential to the future of schools based on the historic Christian faith. Our vision includes robust, flourishing networks of Christian schools lead by individuals who are dynamic executives and model management from a faith perspective.