Established in 1996, The Cedarville Review is the in-house literary journal of Cedarville University.
Our mission is to compile the best undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography here at Cedarville University.
Our focus is to showcase talented voices that explore the human condition in all its complexities and nuances.
Our hope is to impact how college students think about and interact with art by publishing pieces which seek to, as C. S. Lewis instructs, “see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own.” In this way, we “demand windows” to investigate the experiences in our communities and understand truth from all our imperfections and beauties. Through critical empathy and creative expression, we seek to show the perfect need for Christ and his saving grace.
"What then is the good of—what is even the defense for— occupying our hearts with stories of what never happened and entering vicariously into feelings which we should try to avoid having in our own person? Or of fixing our inner eye earnestly on things that can never exist [...]? The nearest I have yet got to an answer is that we seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves." - C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
The Cedarville Review is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Links to the journal appear in the CedarCommons repository for free and open access by any interested party. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access. Authors retain the copyrights of their articles, which are governed by Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.
Cedarville University Mission Statement: “Cedarville University transforms lives through excellent education and intentional discipleship in submission to biblical authority.”