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Affiliated with the
Cowper & Newton
Museum
Olney, England
Cowper & Newton Museum
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 History
The John Newton International Center for Christian Studies is an
incorporated, non-profit, religious and educational organization that
enjoys
the privilege of affiliation
with the historic
Cowper and Newton Museum in Olney, England.
The JNC is
a newly-founded (Fall 2002) Christian institution
situated on a historic property adjacent to the Pennsylvania State
University Dickinson School of Law and Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
A center for Christian Studies that would promote and defend the
truths of historic Christian orthodoxy and fortify the profile of
Christian faith through intellectual engagement with the
 academic communities of central PA.
The benefaction
of graduates from Dickinson College and
the Law School led to the purchase of
the
historic property, 201 S. College Street.
In November 2002, the award-winning restoration work was completed.
Dickinson School of Law hosted the January, 2003 dedicatory
lecture, which officially marked the opening of the Center and the
beginning of its programs.
VISION
& MISSION STATEMENT
D.A. Carson, research professor of
New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, issued a
clarion call to twenty-first century Christians entitled The
Gagging of God:
Christianity Confronts Pluralism.
It is a masterful analysis of our postmodern world and an
exploration of how Christians can speak of the grace of God in
Christ to a generation
unacquainted with the
very categories with which Christians speak. The John Newton
Center serves
where Christian categories have been displaced or marginalized.
 The John Newton Center recognizes that its postmodern educational
setting, a setting that yields many of the state's and some of the
nation's political, educational, military, judicial, and corporate
leaders, requires an intellectual and ministerial engagement suited
to the challenge of post-Christian academia. The John Newton Center
thus seeks to represent orthodox Christianity, underscoring the
historic and theological verity of the message of the person and
work of Jesus Christ, and the coherence and consistency of its
Christian world and life view.
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