Charles Scriven

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Charles Scriven (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013.^[1][2] He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation ^[3] and Chair of the Board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.^[4]

Career[]

After attending Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington, Scriven obtained a master's degree in divinity at Andrews University in 1968. In 1984 he obtained a Ph.D. in systematic theology and Christian social ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He served for six years as minister in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1992 he was appointed president of Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland. He has been an editor of Insight, a Seventh-day Adventist magazine for young people.^[1][5]

Selected publications[]

• The Demons Have Had It: A Theological ABC (1976)
• The Transformation of Culture: Christian social ethics after H. Richard Niebuhr (1988)
• The Promise of Peace: Dare to Experience the Advent Hope (2009)

See also[]

• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Seventh-day Adventist theology
• Seventh-day Adventist eschatology
• History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• 28 fundamental beliefs
• Questions on Doctrine
• Teachings of Ellen White
• Inspiration of Ellen White
• Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Investigative judgment
• The Pillars of Adventism
• Second Advent
• Baptism by Immersion
• Conditional Immortality
• Historicism
• Three Angels' Messages
• End times
• Sabbath in Seventh-day Adventism
• Ellen G. White
• Adventist Review
• Adventist
• Seventh-day Adventist Church Pioneers
• Seventh-day Adventist worship
• Adventist Health Studies
• Ellen G. White Estate

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