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Chesterton House is a Christian Study Center and 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York that works with the students, staff, faculty, and administration of Cornell to bridge the academy and the Christian church. ==History== A group of pastors and professors in Ithaca, NY came together to form Chesterton House in 2000 in order to "facilitate discovery of the intellectual riches of the historic Christian faith, thereby empowering more faithful Christian living." The Study Center is named after G.K. Chesterton, the British writer and humorist who influenced Gandhi and C.S. Lewis. According to their 2014 Annual Report, Chesterton House describes its residential community as “a cross between a fraternity and a monastery.” They have an annual budget of over $500,000, 60% of which is donated. The remainder comes from program service revenue and special fundraisers, such as when the center issued a jazz CD featuring William Edgar and John Patitucci. The Chesterton House building, located on The Knoll, is an English Tudor-style mansion that includes an industrial kitchen, sun room, living room, bedrooms, and a library with periodical subscriptions and thousands of volumes. The Executive Director Karl E. Johnson, also a founding member and current board chair of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers (CCSC),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://studycentersonline.org/about/history/ )〕 said in the Cornell Chronicle,“()e want to communicate that a proper study and understanding of religion helps facilitate human flourishing in all areas of life, whether in the arts, public policy, or the modern research university.” Dick Keyes of L’Abri speaks of Chesterton House as a place where ideas are “argued, debated, persuaded, reasoned.” Chesterton House is an affiliate member of Cornell United Religious Work, which organizes all religious groups on Cornell’s campus, including Cornell Hillel and the Cornell Catholic Community. Chesterton House’s advisory board includes Ken Blanchard, Andy Crouch of Christianity Today, D.A. Carson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ard Louis, and Eleonore Stump. There is also a Governing Board and a Faculty Advisory Board. In 2013 twenty-one university campus ministry organizations were awarded $2.9 million from the Lilly Endowment in order to further their vocation-related programs. Chesterton House was one of the four Christian Study Centers to receive the grant, including Hill House Ministries at the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Christian Study at the University of Virginia, and the Christian Study Center of Gainesville at the University of Florida. The Oread Center in Kansas, also a member of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers, received part of a $4 million grant in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chesterton House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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