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No matter where you look in modern culture, Calvin researchers, writers, and performers are there. Our faculty are embedded in professional networks of all sorts. They seek justice and celebrate peace. They work to diagnose and solve problems. And they prepare students for a world in need of what Christian scholars have to offer.

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100+

student researchers hired in the sciences and the humanities each summer
11

Centers and Institutes engaging global concerns in Christian scholarship
$28 million

awarded to Calvin for faculty and staff research, scholarship and programming 2013–2017

125+

publications resulting from student/faculty research, annually.

Provost Research Initiatives

Citizenship

Citizenship The Faith & Citizenship research initiative is about the formation of citizens. Through the research we develop, we ask the question, "What is a good citizen?" and try to provide meaningful answers in many different contexts.

Health

Health While the United States leads the world in spending on healthcare, actual health outcomes in this country tends to lag behind others. One of the most important strategies in addressing this problem is promoting public health.

Sustainability

Sustainability At Calvin, we want renewing God’s good earth to be a way of life, so we make sustainability a priority—as an educational goal and an institutional value.

Centers & Institutes

Recent publications

Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings by David Urban

Sport. Faith. Life. by Brian R. Bolt

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices, 6th Edition by Kevin den Dulk, Allen D. Hertzke, Laura R. Olson, Robert Booth Fowler

On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom by David I. Smith

Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement by Carl Plantinga

Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places by Mark T. Mulder

Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave: Peter through Roman Eyes by Kurt C. Schaefer

On Islam by Abraham Kuyper

At God’s Table/하나님의 식탁: Bilingual Picture Book (Korean-English) by María Eugenia Cornou, Carrie Steenwyk, John D. Witvliet, Joel Schoon-Tanis (Illustrator)

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China by Li (Mary) Ma

Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith

The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods (with online resources) by Lee Hardy

Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings by David Urban

Sport. Faith. Life. by Brian R. Bolt

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices, 6th Edition by Kevin den Dulk, Allen D. Hertzke, Laura R. Olson, Robert Booth Fowler

On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom by David I. Smith

Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement by Carl Plantinga

Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places by Mark T. Mulder

Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave: Peter through Roman Eyes by Kurt C. Schaefer

On Islam by Abraham Kuyper

At God’s Table/하나님의 식탁: Bilingual Picture Book (Korean-English) by María Eugenia Cornou, Carrie Steenwyk, John D. Witvliet, Joel Schoon-Tanis (Illustrator)

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China by Li (Mary) Ma

Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith

The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods (with online resources) by Lee Hardy

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