Trinity House Institute has taken a new name, the Theopolis Institute.

This striking new name expresses our unique vision and mission and captures the unified purpose behind all our specific programs and activities.

We still have Bible, liturgy, and culture in our tagline. We still offer the same courses on the same topics, still sponsor the ecumenical Nevin Lectures and other public events, still publish essays on our web site and send newsletters, still train pastors and future pastors. What’s new is a name that better captures the unique calling God has given us.

About the name

Theopolis comes from two Greek words, “God” and “city.” It communicates our hope that through God’s Word, Liturgy, and pastoral care, the world will become more like the city of God.

“Theopolis” symbolizes our commitment to the universal church. As a Greek term, it gives a nod to the riches of Eastern Christianity, but the name evokes Augustine’s great Latin manifesto, The City of God. Because “Theopolis” derives from a biblical language, it indicates our aspiration to serve churches everywhere, including those of the global South and the Far East.

The search for a new name was initially spurred by legal concerns about Trinity House Institute. Many Christian organizations use “Trinity,” and more than one has a trademark “Trinity.” We were never under legal threat, but the new name avoids all legal ambiguity.

About our logo

Theopolis’s elegant new logo, designed by CREVIN AMD of Missoula, Montana, symbolizes our aims in visual form.

With its curved horizontal lines, our logo presents that horizon of the future that God constantly makes new. We at Theopolis live out of the Christian tradition, not to find a safe haven in the past but to live into a future we cannot anticipate or control. We hope to respond faithfully and creatively to whatever new thing God brings over the horizon.

The logo is a badge of our mission. At the top, the logo shows a city-scape, resting on the firmament – the heavenly city of God. But the city is reflected below the horizon.

Shifting perspective, the city-scape stands at the edge of a sea, its skyline reflected in the sea of nations below.

The logo forms a T for Theopolis. It is a cross that stretches between heaven to earth and from one end of the horizon to the other, embodying our desire to encourage the formation of cruciform churches that will give birth to a cosmos stamped with the image of our Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus.