Dr. Eric vonAnderseck is a peerless apostolic/prophetic voice in these last days, giving the world and the church a critical, groundbreaking analysis of how the Antichrist spirit has successfully crafted thousands of false promises, manipulative practices, and paradoxical spiritual development models that lead to bondage, failure, frustration, confusion, and despair.

For the last 3 decades he has conducted independent, empirical research into the root cause and effects of “Exigent Faith,” documenting its psychological and spiritual impairment upon the soul through a 6 year clinical study of cross cultural, multi-denominational, international groups of worshippers. His conclusions are astounding and a literal last chance wake-up call for the church.

This pioneering research and the subsequent academic advancements in theology, documented in his doctoral thesis, “God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered, Spiritual Transformation, Bridging Science and Theology; Pandects on Exigent Faith Symptoms and Behaviors; Presenting Ontology of Cognitive Faith Processes & Choice Education” has earned Dr. vonAnderseck his ThD degree. Successfully achieving his goal of clearly observing and mapping the roadblocks to spiritual transformation and understanding the cognitive processes of faith in Jesus Christ, his pioneering research forms the basis of the Choice Education Program he engineered to assist Christians to understand their faith and reach their spiritual goals. His motto is: “Quality of Faith for Quality of Life.”

Dr. vonAnderseck knows the roadblocks that people face in achieving a connection with God are real and he observed how this motivated the American Psychological Association (APA) to commission a new diagnostic category called, "Religious or Spiritual Problem" (Code V62.89 in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-Fourth Edition APA, 1994). He further observed how this new commission in turn paved the way for the emerging field of Science and Religion and the trend towards interfacing religious theories and mainstream scientific disciplines to understand spiritual transformation. Yet despite nearly 16 years of research and application, the global Faith Community continued to experience the same symptoms and behaviors of Exigent Faith, confirming Dr. vonAnderseck’s own scientific findings that when the protocols of faith are not standardized to Jesus Christ, faith goes into crisis and the soul does not experience rest nor lasting spiritual transformation.

Dr. vonAnderseck’s own spiritual awakening took place in 1971 while on the battlefield of the Vietnam War. His conversion to Christ took place that same year and in 1977 he answered God’s apostolic call upon his life and began his 28 year longitudinal study into God’s design for spiritual transformation through Jesus Christ. He documented 9,000 of his own spiritual transformation experiences, standardized the nomenclature of IDCCST™ God’s (Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation) and then turned his attention to program engineering, application and development of a spiritual diagnostic & wellness education system that is personal and individualized, bridging exclusivism with inclusivism, addressing a wide range of religious and spiritual problems, and giving cognitive ownership of spiritual transformation back to the individual faith participant.

Dr. vonAnderseck has been successful in meeting his objectives and has turned his findings into solid organizations and education programs that effect positive individual and community outcomes.

Eric's wife of 31 years, Dr. Maria vonAnderseck, shares his humanitarian and philanthropic objectives, and has assisted in turning his 28 years of research notes into an academic education program that is comprehensive and accessible to all of humanity without financial cost. Dr. M. vonAnderseck is the Chief Operations Officer of Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc.

Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc., a non-profit 501 (C)(3) corporation founded by Drs. Eric and Maria vonAnderseck in 2003. Their mission is simple: To raise awareness to the spiritual problems people face and to provide faith participants with free education and tools they need to become successful.

To achieve their goal they built an international infrastructure of staff trained to fulfill their philanthropic, scientific research, and educational goals. The ministry has made significant humanitarian advancements. To date the staff has donated over $5 million dollars in pro bono volunteerism in service to their communities and fellowmen with the faith-based education services the corporation provides through its Distance Learning University and its affiliate colleges.

Dr. Maria vonAnderseck serves as full professor at Second 8th Week University where she earned her PhD degree in Theology for her work with Dr. E. vonAnderseck and for her research in Applied Sociology: Phenomenological Studies Associated with Spiritual Transformation. Her work with curriculum design and program development contributed to the implementation of a responsible learning system. Understanding the necessity of hands-on training, she worked with her staff to develop one of a kind curricula, tutorials, labs and testing designed to prepare each individual with the knowledge to understand every aspect of faith and give them the ability to apply that knowledge to their day to day living, as well as foster the necessary critical thinking skills that makes faith practical, cognitive, and reality based. Her experienced leadership is outcome-focused with attention given to ensuring individual success as well as quality mentorship of Christian leaders who competently oversee the dissemination and training of Choice Education within the network of affiliate colleges.

Dr. E. vonAnderseck’s realized goals are ushering in a new era of Christian leadership training and accountability, with new Christian education tools, empowering faith participants through Choice Education to understand and rate their own spiritual growth experiences. These benchmark changes are now facilitating a complete paradigm shift, a historically unprecedented liberation for Christianity from the centuries of merchandising and manipulations that come from paradoxical and shifting protocols.

Second 8th Week University, the international distance learning University founded by the vonAndersecks in 1999, stands as a beacon and pacesetter in Christian Education for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation.

Understanding the need for global access, free education services to Christians, Eric and Maria founded the vonAnderseck Life Endowment Foundation, granting full scholarships for higher education degrees through the Second 8th Week University, giving individuals academic advancement opportunities and life skills training support to build their personal spiritual, mental and emotional wellness as well as to equip men and women of faith who desire accredited leadership positions to build a global culture of community wellness.

Knowing a centralized channel was imperative to implement his vision for standardized accreditation of Christian Education Dr. vonAnderseck founded the Second 8th Week International Accreditation Agency (S8WIAA). Working with his international team of academic advisors, he built a new accreditation system for Christian Education and Christian Educators, one that would deliver a comprehensive accountability process that assures high standards for Christian education by returning Spiritual Accountability Rating System (SARS) to a stable baseline and measuring program veracity in light of its power.

Understanding the need for veracity verification and collaborative research and exchange, in 2005 Dr. vonAnderseck launched the first of its kind, the “International Center for Quality of Life Research,” dedicated to publishing the empirical evidence of his six year and other on-going international clinical studies, and to open the door for joint multi-disciplinary investigations into Exigent Faith as well as to further the study of God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation™ (IDCCST™).

ICQOLR is the premier institution in this new frontier in integrated scientific research into Spiritual Transformation, offering groundbreaking opportunities to scientifically document quantitative and qualitative measurements of spiritual development that negatively and positively affect quality of faith and quality of life.

With an appreciation of the community and its desire to help their fellow citizens, Dr. vonAnderseck founded the Second 8th Week Philanthropic Network, an organization dedicated to network charities, raise awareness, identify opportunities, integrate resources, and synergize donors to facilitate hope and the transformation of lives through wellness education.

Dr. vonAnderseck’s lifetime work and philanthropy has earned him a Doctor of Divinity award from Second 8th Week™ University, where he serves as the Provost and Chief Educator and Lecturer. At Second 8th Week University he has developed and trained an international staff of professionals who volunteer thousands of hours each year assisting those with faith crisis. Second 8th Week™ University and its world wide network of affiliate colleges are building bridges in the science and faith community and providing serious and effectual opportunities for immediate recovery from faith crisis and long term care for sustained spiritual wellness.

Having logged over 20,000 hours of lecturing on the subjects of the Antichrist, history’s mysteries, the end times, fallen angels, holy angels, and understanding God’s plan, Dr. vonAnderseck expertise is dynamic. He also addresses the 12 elements of the gospel in detail and how they work together as a system to produce Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation. In addition, he expounds on Scientific Fields of Discipline that center on human life and re-bridges those fields back to Christ, removing the paradoxes that have crippled faith by titrating the knowledge base of Jesus Christ with false hopes for humanities' future.

Fields such as Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Neurobiology, the Ontology of Faith and Creation, Comparative Religious Studies, Hermeneutics, Epistemology, Theodicy, Systems Theory, Philosophy, Christology, Angelology, Pneumatalogy, Phenomenology are just a few of the many fields Dr. vonAnderseck's 28 years of field research has covered.

Drs Eric and Maria vonAnderseck have extensive publishing experience with the Second 8th Week University Press, having written over 100 curriculum lessons and published close to 100 articles and education related booklets.

Second 8th Week University Audio Library features Dr. E. vonAnderseck’s four exhaustive commentaries as well as his 1000 volume audio lecture library.

Dr. vonAnderseck recently launched S8W Media Productions as a vehicle to produce and distribute important public relations and public service educational messages to the church and the world, in addition to developing media rich products Christians can purchase through his online e-catalog and bookstore, “Bread of Christ.”

In addition, Dr. vonAnderseck recently launched a one of kind e-newsletter, “S8W Prophetic Pulse” and is set to launch a quarterly magazine “The Pillar of Truth,” a cutting edge, end times magazine dedicating to publishing the voice of God’s Apostolic government.