The Logos and Cosmos Initiative
Theology and the sciences: Relating God’s Word to God’s world
The Logos and Cosmos Initiative (LCI) equips young Christian academics to lead projects in their universities that spark curiosity and wonder about God’s Word and God’s world, and about theology and the sciences.
From 2020 – 2025 (August), the LCI was funded by the John Templeton Foundation and was active in Latin America and Francophone Africa. In 2026, the LCI has continued in those regions under IFES regional leadership, and there is an active LCI program in East Asia as well, thanks to a generous grant from Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS). An LCI program is also being planned to start soon in South Asia. If you would like to help sustain the future of the LCI and help IFES continue equipping Christian scholars, please give here.
The LCI provides training, mentoring and funding for our participants, known as “Catalysts”, to lead theology and the sciences projects in collaboration with their IFES national movements.
Some of our Catalysts’ projects draw together theological and scientific perspectives to address challenges such as mental health, injustice, poverty and climate change. Meanwhile, other LCI projects promote dialogue between theology and the sciences, or provide mentoring and training to help students engage with their universities and academic disciplines.
Project activities include small-group topical Bible studies, workshops, writing and publishing resources, developing online courses and delivering practical programs. Many of the materials produced by Catalysts as part of their projects are available in the LCI’s online resource library.
The LCI is an outworking of IFES’ global vision to impact all of society for the glory of Christ, which is summarized under IFES’ goal of Engaging the University (ETU).
“Since the Logos and Cosmos Initiative was launched in 2020, its participants have shown the global IFES family new ways of being incarnational in our Christian witness in the university. The program has been catalytic, mobilising Christian students and faculty to speak about and apply their Christian faith and their academic discipline to key issues facing their countries. This is just one example of how IFES national movements are living out our vision to impact the university, church and society for the glory of Christ.”
— Tim Adams, General Secretary of IFES
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