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Christian Study Centers are American Christian organizations located close to universities and colleges. Beginning in 1968, they have been developed on campuses to encourage the life of the mind and a thoughtful approach to all academic disciplines from an orthodox Christian perspective. One long-term goal of many study centers is to maintain a physical presence close to a university campus, not unlike Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Many of these college religious organizations are affiliated with the Consortium of Christian Study Centers, which was founded in 2008. ==History== In 1968 the first of these Christian Study Centers, the Center for Christian Study, was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia next to the University of Virginia. The Center took its initial inspiration from a combination of two organizations, Francis Schaeffer and his L'Abri organization〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Center for Christian Study )〕 and Regent College, a graduate school of biblical and theological studies for laypeople. The Center for Christian Study was fully incorporated in 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 17, 2015 )〕 In 1972 Frank C. Nelsen, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, discussed creating evangelical living and learning centers for students in an article in Christianity Today. He said that centers "for undergraduate students () be built on private property near large state universities" to enable students to engage in "intellectually honest investigation of the Christian faith." Soon after, several Christian Study Centers were founded at almost the same time, such as New College Berkeley in 1977 and the MacLaurin Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota, which began in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.newcollegeberkeley.org/aboutus.asp )〕 MacLaurin merged with Christian Student Fellowship to become MacLaurinCSF in 2011. It is located near the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://maclaurincsf.org/contact-us/ )〕 In 1983 the Dayspring Center for Christian Studies began near the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. It offered courses that were approved for transfer to the University. Originally it was an extension site for Denver Seminary. In 2004 the center entered into a partnership with Northwestern College and opened two more study centers at Colorado universities with transfer credit arrangements. Dayspring later changed its name to The Boulder Center for Christian Study, which is affiliated with Centers for Christian Study International (CCSI), an organization dedicated to starting Study Centers in university towns.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://studycenters.org/about/history/ )〕 Beginning in 1999 several heads of Christian Study Centers began meeting for support. The group grew, and in 2008 incorporated as the Consortium of Christian Study Centers (CCSC) in Charlottesville, Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://studycentersonline.org/about/history/ )〕 The Consortium is supported by donations and by dues paid by its Member and Partner Organizations. CCSC sponsors an Annual Meeting for its Member and Partner organizations, provides numerous resources for thoughtful study, helps its member organizations find speakers and recruit staff, provides advice, and encourages communication among the groups. In 2000 Chesterton House began at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It grew out of the new interest in Christian evangelical intellectual activity in the 1990s, which included ''The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind'' by Mark A. Noll in 1995 and ''The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship'' by George Marsden in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://chestertonhouse.org/about/our-story-0 )〕 In 2013 the Lilly Endowment awarded $2.9 million to 21 university campus ministry organizations to expand their programs related to vocation. Four of these were members of the CCSC: Chesterton House at Cornell University, the Christian Study Center of Gainesville at the University of Florida, Hill House Ministries at the University of Texas, and University Christian Ministries (now the Center for Christian Study) at the University of Virginia. In 2014 the Oread Center in Lawrence, KS, also a Member Organization of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers, received part of a $4 million grant. After a Supreme Court ruling in 2010, many schools began enforcing non-discrimination policies for all campus organizations. Student religious groups were asked to sign a non-discrimination policy that required any member of the school to be able to join and become a leader of the group, or lose funding and access to meeting space. In 2014 the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship, affiliated with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship left the Bowdoin College campus. It became the Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center near the college. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Study Centers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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