Hartford Seminary is a place where people explore, discover and define their faith. Others come to rediscover, redefine and renew their faith. For all, it is a place to "keep the faith": to keep many faiths alive and growing for individuals and for society.

The Institute's work is guided by a disciplined understanding of the interrelationship between the inner life and resources of American religious institutions and the possibilities and limits placed on those institutions by the social and cultural context into which God has called them.