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The Arizona Center for Christian Studies (AzCCS) is a scholarly organization that explores a Christian faith perspective on academic studies, seeking an intelligent dialogue with all academic disciplines. AzCCS seeks to:<\/p>\n
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AzCCS seeks to: benefit all colleges, universities, and seminaries\u00a0in Arizona, as well as the wider\u00a0community, and integrate faith and learning through lectures, classes, conferences, discussion groups, research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"The Arizona Center for Christian Studies (ACCS) is a scholarly organization that explores a Christian\u00a0faith perspective on academic studies, seeking an\u00a0intelligent dialogue with all academic disciplines.\u00a0ACCS seeks\u00a0to:\r\nHistorical Perspective<\/h2>\n
Statement of Faith<\/h2>\n
Advisory Council<\/h2>\n
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Historical Perspective:<\/h3>\r\nOver the centuries Christian believers have made masterful contributions in every area of study and endeavor, from philosophy to physics, and from literature to law \u2014 Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Luther, Calvin, Galileo, Donne, Grotius, Herbert, Rembrandt, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Bach, Edwards, Handel, Webster, Wilberforce, Faraday, Truth, Kierkegaard, Nightingale, Dostoyevsky, Mendel, Tolstoy, Maxwell, Carver, Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, Lema\u00eetre, Lewis, End\u00f4, and King are among the notables, ancient and modern. Therefore, ACCS takes all disciplines as its purview: science, mathematics, engineering and technology; humanities and liberal arts; languages and literatures; architecture and design; art, dance, theatre, film and music; political and social sciences; historical, philosophical, and religious studies; theology and biblical studies; gender and ethnic studies; business and non-profit administration; communication, media studies and journalism; community development and social work; education; justice studies and law; medicine, nursing, and psychology; and environmental and sustainability studies. We believe that \u201call truth is God\u2019s truth,\u201d and that believers must positively engage in every area of thought and life. It was for this very purpose\u00a0that the greatest universities of Europe and the Americas were founded.\u00a0ACCS seeks to carry forward this great tradition in the institutions of higher education in Arizona.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azccs.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}