This question is as alive today at Valparaiso University as it was at the time of its acquisition 75 years ago.
Any university is defined in large part by the questions that it loves and keeps alive.
For Valparaiso University, these questions have always involved the relationship between faith and reason, between Christianity and contemporary cultures, and between the sacred and the secular. Valparaiso at its best has questioned what it believes even as it believes what it questions. A famous philosopher once said that science should seek to achieves implicity and then distrust it. A Lutheran university strives to achieve a perfect synthesis between faith and reason and then distrusts all such final solutions of fallen human intelligence. So it lives uneasily.