“If the church fails to apply the central truth of Christianity to social problems correctly, someone else will do so incorrectly.” — Carl F. H. Henry
The mission of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary exists to advance a distinctly evangelical and confessional public theology that reflects the spirit, thought, and legacy of Carl F. H. Henry by equipping Christians to understand their times and engage them from a historically-attuned and theologically-informed perspective.
Believing that it is regenerated hearts that result in renovated cultures, the Henry Institute looks to joyfully proclaim the moral and cultural witness of the gospel.
The Sesquicentennial Pavilion at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Led by Dr. Andrew Walker, the Henry Institute (@HenrySBTS) gladly grounds its work in the theological program of the great twentieth-century evangelical theologian Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry (1913-2003). The Henry Institute stands in a theological tradition that is doctrinally conservative, inerrantist, and grounded in the confessional Baptist tradition. Yet it is also, like Henry, warmly evangelical, both sympathetic to the plight of modern evangelicalism and keenly interested in the renewal of the evangelical movement through biblical doctrine centered around the gospel.
The Henry Institute seeks to serve churches of Baptist and evangelical identity by producing theological and intellectual resources on a wide range of questions to aid in the great task of cultural engagement. Ultimately, by equipping churches to know the times and know the Word, the Institute seeks the strengthening of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Toward this end, the Henry Institute will feature materials that accomplish this mission through white papers, conferences, essays, interviews, and other media. The Henry Institute will also host select events for the campus community and the broader evangelical movement.
In these and other offerings, the Henry Institute seeks to honor the legacy of postwar evangelicalism’s most eminent theologian and to extend it into the present by serving the church and its mission from a Henry-shaped posture and theological worldview.
