Statement of Faith
At Augustine School our faculty and board of directors are committed to the historic Christian faith. By this we mean the following:
- We affirm the truthfulness and infallibility of Holy Scripture
- We affirm the truthfulness of the central older creeds: Nicene Creed, Apostles’ Creed, and Athanasian Creed
- We are in essential agreement with the Evangelical and Reformed tradition, particularly as articulated in the classic Protestant and Reformed confessions of faith, including the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the Philadelphia Confession of Faith.
- These theological truths form the theological foundation at Augustine School, but we happily invite students from the broader Christian tradition to join us. Every attempt will be made to expose our students to the full range of both Christian and non-Christian thought, and students will be introduced to the whole spectrum of theological and doctrinal traditions. At the same time, our faculty will be composed of those committed to the above theological truths and who teach in accordance with, and not contrary to, these truths.
- By way of summary, we confess the following:
- We believe that all Scripture is given by inspiration from God, is completely trustworthy, and is the sole infallible norm for life and practice.
- We believe that there is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Triune God is the Creator and Preserver of all things, and is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
- We believe in the eternal deity and preexistence of Christ, in his virgin birth, his incarnation, his perfect and sinless obedience to the Father, his substitutionary sacrifice, his bodily resurrection, his ascension to the Father, his intercession for the saints, and his future personal return in power and glory.
- We believe that man was originally created in God’s image, but that man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original righteous state, and that now man’s posterity comes into the world in a state of guilt, corruption, and sin.
- We believe that election is God’s eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting life—not because of foreseen merit or faith, but of his mercy in Christ—in consequence of which they are called, efficaciously brought to faith, justified, and glorified.
- We believe that one is justified by grace alone through faith alone, because of Christ alone, and that genuine faith produces obedience in the believer. Those who truly trust Christ will persevere to the end.
- We believe that the Father and Son sent the Holy Spirit to bring people to faith and repentance, to sanctify those who trust Christ, and to lead believers into all truth.
- We believe that those who trust in Christ will enter the joyful bliss of the world to come, while those who fail to trust Christ will enter into everlasting conscious punishment.