Who we are and what we seek to accomplish.
To fulfill our mission, we provide young men and women with the highest quality undergraduate and graduate education in liberal arts and culture from a distinctively Christian and Reformed perspective, to equip them for lives of faithful service to the Triune God and His Kingdom, and to encourage the use of their gifts for the growth of Christian culture.
New Saint Andrews College exists to graduate leaders who shape culture living faithfully under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Our vision is for New Saint Andrews College to remain faithful to God over the course of generations, serving as a steadfast classical Christian liberal arts college, one that remains thoroughly Trinitarian, robustly Protestant and Reformed, and decidedly evangelical. Building on the foundation of the absolute authority of Scripture, we intend for the College to remain committed to the ancient truths of Nicea and Chalcedon, and to the system of solid Reformed doctrine coupled with warm evangelical experience, as represented by the Westminster Confession of Faith.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are our only infallible rule of faith and practice. The Lord Jesus Christ committed these inspired Scriptures to His Church. We therefore defer to the witness of the historic Christian Church as a genuine but fallible authority, subordinate to the Scriptures themselves, in discerning what the Scriptures teach. Because they faithfully witness what is taught in the Word of God, we receive the great creedal statements the Church has affirmed throughout the ages: The Apostles’ Creed, The Nicene Creed, and the Definition of Chalcedon. Moreover, we believe that the Reformational confessions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (including the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dort), of all historic statements, most fully and accurately summarize the system of orthodox Christian doctrine revealed in Scripture. Therefore, the specific headings below do not exhaust our doctrinal understanding, but rather identify those doctrines that merit greater attention today.
