Cedarville Magazine Fall 2016

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THOMAS WHITE’S LATEST
BOOK: FIRST FREEDOM
First Freedom: The Beginning and End
of Religion Freedom(B&HAcademic) is
the latest title fromCedarville President
Thomas White. Released October 15,
the new title sold out its first printing
within a week. This thoroughly revised
second edition explores the challenges
to religious liberty resulting from the
conflict of historical Christianity and
a new, secular orthodoxy. In addition
to editing First Freedom, White wrote
the chapters titled “Religious Liberty
and the Christian University” and “The
Defense of Religious Liberty by the
Anabaptists and the English Baptists.”
He and co-editors Jason G. Duesing and
Malcolm B. Yarnell III developed First
Freedom to equip churches, pastors,
and Christian citizens to uphold this
First Amendment freedom. Available
at
“It is difficult to exaggerate the historical
importance of the Baptist witness to
religious liberty....The spiritual ancestors
of the contributors to the volume would be
as proud of them as I am grateful to them
for placing their impressive intellectual
gifts at the service of our first freedom.”
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Princeton University
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God with all of our minds as a University
means that we train students at the highest
levels with crystal-clear thinking and
pinpoint articulation to impact the minds
and hearts of the next generation with
truth.
Moreover, to love our neighbor as
ourselves, we must first and foremost
share the Gospel with them. We recognize
that the Gospel is the power of God unto
salvation (Rom. 1:16). However, part of
loving our neighbor also requires us to
unleash eternal truth upon the weaknesses
of modern culture. Such special worldview
warfare requires special forces trained for
the task at hand.
We have begun the task, but we have
a long way to go. Included among our
graduates this past May were the first
students who earned our fully accredited
Doctor of Pharmacy. For years, we have
trained students through our Master of
Education and, more recently, through the
Master of Business Administration and
Master of Science in Nursing. Additionally,
this fall we have launched the Master of
Divinity along with a redesigned Master of
Ministry.
What unites these graduates and
the degree programs through which
they were educated is the reality that
Cedarville University has always stood
for the Word of God and the Testimony of
Jesus Christ. We have demonstrated this
at the undergraduate level with a Bible
minor for every undergraduate major.
We will continue this commitment at the
graduate level with biblical integration in
every discipline and by offering graduate
programs in advanced Christian studies
available alongside other programs. By
having the proper faculty member to teach
in these areas and the students preparing
at this level interacting with the remainder
of campus, we raise the theological and
spiritual emphasis across the University,
thereby bolstering our mission.
In the pages of this magazine, you will
read more about many of these programs
and, in days to come, you just might
hear of new ones. As you do, would you
pray for us? Ultimately, our desire isn’t
merely to grant degrees. Rather, it’s to
create sustainable, marketable, quality
degrees that fit with our mission. Most
importantly, we desire to engage culture
at the highest level with the cause of truth.
In the days to come, we hope that when
you think graduate programs, you think
Cedarville University.
Thomas White became Cedarville’s 10th
President in 2013. He earned his Ph.D. in
systematic theology from Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
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