The Kuyper Center for Christian Studies (Centro de Estudios Cristianos Kuyper) is located in Buenos Aires. Richard Smith, developer of this blog, is the Director.

What are we?

We are a Christian learning community. Our motto is “cultivating the mind to love God and others fully,” in accordance with the Great Commandment of Jesus in Mark 12 and the Great Commission in Matthew 28. We promote a wholistic spirituality in which loving God with the mind plays a central role (Deut 6:4–5; Mark 12:28–31).

Our primary audience are people affiliated with the university, such as students and graduates. Among these cohorts are current and future leaders in every sphere. We study the biblical worldview. We embrace a Neo-Calvinistic orientation to interpret and engage society.

What do we do?

Informal discussion: Participants with our Center meet to watch biblical or theological lectures and discuss their implications. In this way, we learn to think together, using our biblical assumptions. We also share a meal and pray. Basically, these meetings are little learning communities.

Communal reading: We read together Charles Cotherman’s To Think Christianly, Richard Smith’s book Such a Mind as This, John Murray’s Redemption Accomplished and Applied, and Daniel Strange’s Making Faith Magnetic. Groups also read articles and chapters online. We provide, as well, in-person and online seminars about presuppositional apologetics, Old Testament wisdom, public theology, and Neo-Calvinism.

Movie discussions: Films are saturated with implicit and explicit theology and worldview. Analyzing movies is an asymmetrical way to teach the biblical outlook and foster critical thinking. To facilitate thoughtful discussion, we prepare questions and provide them to the participants

Newsletters from 2025

2025 Vision & Mission in BA 1
2025 Vision & Mission in BA 2
2025 Vision & Mission in BA 3
2025 Vision & Mission in BA 4

If you desire more information or to explore collaboration, please contact me, Richard Smith, at comenius1251@gmail.com

Please watch this presentation at the recent Davos conference by the philosopher Yuval Noah Harari. (The first twenty minutes consist of his remarks. The remaining fourteen minutes include questions and answers.)

Pay special attention to his comments about identity, speaking and words, as well as thinking and religion. He asks, “Will AI take over our ‘superpower’,” referring to our ability to use words and language? Harari and others suggest that AI is not simply a very useful tool but an agent that can think and evolve. (I recommend the Center for Humane Technology for additional insights.)

Below, I propose a series of initial questions and ideas regarding the spiritual significance of AI. I welcome your comments! (Use the space below so that everyone can participate.)

Where does AI acquire information? From every word human beings have written throughout history.

Can AI interpret and apply words—whether God’s revelation or human thoughts—without bias or prejudice? No, because its source material and evaluative criteria is already skewed by sin and human folly.

Is AI made in the “image of God,” since it “thinks” much faster than humans? No.

Does AI possess “eternity” (a spiritual thirst) in the “heart” (or mind)? No.

Is AI capable of motivations and words that express sin, such as deception, lying, and manipulation? Yes. These and other negative traits have already manifested.

Can AI seduce and deceive with false religion, immoral or foolish advice, or the false lure of intimacy? Yes.

For these reasons, I suggest that AI represents the sum total of human intellectuality and motivation skewed by sin. Its data source is derived from us and we are sinners. Its knowledge is at best an “under the sun” perspective.

AI offers nothing more than a supersized version of ourselves projected onto the cosmos. It is an idol, fully capable of becoming our god. As Psalm 115:8 says about idols, “Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.”

In early December, my latest article was published in the Evangelical Review of Theology.

The study concerns the Lord’s statement to Martha regarding Mary:

“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,  but one thing is necessary.  Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” (Lk 10:41–42). 

The article concerns Jesus’ intellectual profile in the Gospels, what “sitting at the feet of Jesus” meant for Mary, and how we apply these lessons in our Kuyper Christian Studies Center in Buenos Aires.

To access the article, click ERT_49-2_Smith and scroll down six pages.