Theology & Discipleship

Spiritual Life at CPA is central to all curricula, programming, administration, student, and family life of the school. The Academy believes that all of life and learning is ultimately spiritual and there exists no bifurcation between the sacred and the secular. At CPA, the study and celebration of all disciplines is through the knowledge of the triune God, acknowledging the doctrine of the trinity and realizing that we live a trinitarian life. The Bible of the triune God is the epistemological and interpretive lens through which we teach, learn, and evaluate in all aspects of life at CPA. It is through this lens that students come to know God. 

The only way that CPA can uphold the Alma Mater, Soli Deo Gloria, to God alone be the glory, is because of a commitment first to Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone. As a ministry of Christ Presbyterian Church, the Academy's theology is drawn from the Westminster Confession of Faith, its larger and shorter catechisms, which is by no means an equal authority of Scripture but is a clear setting forth of what Scripture teaches in summary fashion. The Academy also holds to the universal creeds of the Christian church: Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, and the Chalcedonian Creed. 

From a pedagogical standpoint, discovery in the English classroom, the soccer field, the Chemistry lab, the stage, the gym, is all reflective of Christ. The message of Christ (the Gospel) is delivered in the method of Christ (the pedagogy) through the manner of Christ (compassion, kindness, and humility).