Our Mission

The Center for Theological Integrity at Northern Seminary serves the Church by exploring the relationship between a church’s doctrine and practices. CTI believes a church’s practices should be congruent with and should emerge from their theological commitments. In short, the Center believes there should be an integrated relationship between praxis and dogma.

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By virtue of its mission, CTI is suggesting there is not sufficient attention paid to the relationship between a church’s practices/activities and their theological commitments. Because the practices of a church are more theologically formative than their stated doctrines, this lack of integration can cause theological confusion and/or indifference, resulting in a practical agnosticism among believers.

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The Center for Theological Integrity exists to help pastors and churches understand the relationship between doctrine and practice, and to encourage practices/activities which are conforming to and confirming of a church’s theological commitments.