Ratio Christi seeks to encourage and strengthen the faith of Christian students at secular and liberal institutions across the country, while also sharing Christ's message and love to those that have yet to receive it, through the use of intellectual investigation and apologetics. Ratio Christi believes that Christians have failed to address the pressing questions of worldview, science, philosophy
, history, etc. Consequently, the Secular Humanist worldview has overtaken the university and the minds of students. By situating apologetic clubs at universities across the nation, we hope to take part in the battle for the mind and begin to reverse the Humanist trend of thought by providing and equipping students with the answers, or means of getting the answers, to the pressing questions of life.
*Ratio Christi appreciates financial support. Indeed, Christianity is supported by probability calculations and other considerations drawn from human history (such as arguments for Jesus’ resurrection) and natural history (such as scientific arguments for God). The ancient Greek word logos has a range of meaning that overlaps with ratio. Logos can mean word, speech, argument, wisdom, and reason. Peter Kreeft has noted this in his book, The Philosophy of Jesus (2007), p. 9. Saint John even opens his biography of Jesus with: “In the beginning was the Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God.” John tells us this Logos is Jesus. He is the source of all good things, including reason itself. Furthermore, Christian thinkers have long recognized that ratio and logos include discerning the inherent (God-given) intelligibility of any object of study. We can know a thing according to its nature, in view of its coherence and relations to other things, rather than just accidentally. This is possible because the creator, the ultimate ratio and logos, spoke the world into being. The world is designed to be known, and thus all academic disciplines are possible. This is ratio Christi--the reason of Christ.
