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What is The Canadian Institute for Law, Theology, and Public Policy Inc.?

The Institute engages in research, educational and publication activities, but does not engage in lobbying activities. The Institute is incorporated under the Business Corporations Act. It is not a charitable organization, and cannot issue receipts for income tax deductions. This was done deliberately to ensure that individuals are not tempted to support the Institute rather than their local church.

The activities of the Institute are guided by a Statement of Faith and an international Board.

Os Guinness
"...there has been no serious evangelical public philosophy in this century . . ." (Fit Bodies, Fat Minds, 1994).

T.S. Eliot
We cannot be satisfied to be Christians at our devotions and merely secular reformers all the rest of the week. (The Idea of a Christian Society, 1939).

Half a century ago, C.S. Lewis observed:
It is not the books written in direct defence of Materialism that make the modern man a materialist; it is the materialistic assumptions in all the other books . . . . the first step to the reconversion of this country is a series [of books] produced by Christians, which can beat the Penguin and the Thinkers Library on their own ground . . . (God in the Dock - "Christian Apologetics", 1945).

The Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy has taken up C.S. Lewis's challenge, and is focused on the area of public policy.

Statement Of Faith

The Canadian Institute of Law, Theology and Public Policy Inc. accepts the Holy Scriptures as the revealed and inerrant word of God, the all-sufficient rule for faith and practice; and adopts without mental reservation the Apostles' Creed as its statement of fundamental beliefs:

I believe in God,
The Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On The third day He rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again
to judge the living and The dead.

I believe in The Holy Spirit,
The holy catholic Church,
The communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
The resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

Board Of Reference

Ross Clifford, MA, LLB is a lawyer who teaches apologetics and theology at Morling College in New South Wales. His first book, Leading Lawyers Look at the Resurrection(1991) was described as "a significant book which every lawyer should read". It is available from the Canadian Institute under the title Leading Lawyers' Case for the Resurrection.

Gary Colwell, PhD (University of Waterloo), professor of philosophy at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. Gary has written numerous articles for publications in journals such as Philosophy, Informal Logic, Dialogue and Argumentation.

John Warwick Montgomery, PhD, DThéol, LLD is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought, Patrick Henry College (Virginia); and Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton (England). Professor Montgomery holds nine earned degrees. He is author of over one hundred scholarly journal articles and more than forty books in English, French, Spanish and German. He is a lawyer (barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, England; member of the California, Virginia, Washington State, and District of Columbia Bars and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States).

Craig Parton, MA, JD, a graduate of Simon Greenleaf and the Hastings School of Law, is an attorney with Price, Postel and Parma in Santa Barbara, California. He specializes in civil liberties cases. Craig has done campus lecturing for Campus Crusade for Christ, is a guest lecturer at the "International Seminar in Jurisprudence and Human Rights" in Strasbourg, France, and Associate Director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights, also in Strasbourg. He is the author of Richard Whately: A Man for All Seasons.

Rod Rosenbladt, ThD graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the University of Strasbourg. He is now Professor of Theology and Christian Apologetics at Concordia University in Irvine, California, and is a guest lecturer at the "International Seminar in Jurisprudence and Human Rights" in Strasbourg, France.