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Escuela como la entendemos hoy en día es el espacio a partir del cual la persona no sólo recibe conocimientos e información variada sino que además socializa con otras realidades que pueden no ser iguales a la propia. Mientras que Interpretación, se refiere en términos generales, al resultado de la acción de interpretar. Además, resulta ser una actividad propia y fundamental de varios campos que la utilizan como herramienta fundamental a la hora de exponer conclusiones, soluciones o posibles causas de aquellos hechos que investigan o de los que se ocupan.
Partiendo de estas definiciones, vemos que a través de la historia de la Iglesia, se han usado muchas pautas para interpretar la profecía, cristianos e intérpretes de la palabra de Dios difieren en su método general de abordar la profecía del tiempo del fin. Las teorías interpretativas han sido numerosas y ampliamente divergentes.
Es indudable que el libro de Apocalipsis es uno de los que despierta mayor curiosidad entre los creyentes. Para algunos, es un libro al cual les da temor acercarse, otros manifiestan interés en su estudio con el fin de pronosticar los eventos del fin de los tiempos. Sin duda, esto no es nuevo. Desde hace siglos, tanto los creyentes comunes como aquellos que tienen distintos grados de conocimiento han reflejado este interés de estudiar el Apocalipsis. Tal ha sido el compromiso de algunos al enfrentar su estudio, que han dado origen a lo que se conoce como las “escuelas de interpretación” del Apocalipsis. Estas han sido clasificadas como la «preterista», «historicista», «futurista», «dispensacionalista» y «espiritual». En este sentido, a menudo se combinan o se mezclan. Cabe anotar que esta son las más sobresalientes porque también existen otras con menos trascendencia.
No podemos negar la complejidad que acompaña la interpretación de Apocalipsis. Por lo tanto, al acercarnos a él debemos tener definida una estrategia de estudio, ya que es la única parte de la Palabra de Dios acerca de la que se han desarrollado varios sistemas básicos de interpretación, que por supuesto, tienen un fundamento y un argumento sólido, desarrollados durante mucho tiempo. Un breve desarrollo de estos sistemas, conocidos como “escuelas de interpretación”, nos ayudarán a obtener más conocimiento y a tomar una línea para interpretar los contenidos del libro. Cinco son las escuelas más conocidas, en base a las cuales generalmente se hacen las interpretaciones respectivas del Apocalipsis, las cuales desarrollaremos a continuación.
28/28 “La Séptima Trompeta” SEMINARIO DE ESTUDIO DE APOCALIPSIS MINISTERIO HNO. PIO
En cada profecía Dios destaca su interés y amor por su pueblo. Los siete sellos profetizan la historia social de la era cristiana, exponiendo especialmente el triste proceso de la apostasía. También se señala a Dios controlando la historia y terminando con el dolor y el sufrimiento. Las siete trompetas pintan la historia militar que ocurriría en la era cristiana en relación con la iglesia.
La palabra 'milenio' se refiere al período de mil años del reino de Cristo sobre la tierra. Seis veces se menciona en el capítulo 20 del libro del Apocalipsis. El milenio será un período durante el cual Satanás será atado en el abismo: “Y prendió al dragón, la serpiente antigua, que es el diablo y Satanás, y lo ató por mil años” (Ap. 20:2). Los santos de la iglesia y los de la tribulación reinarán con Cristo en su reino milenial: “Y vivieron y reinaron con Cristo mil años” (Ap. 20:6b). Existen 3 posiciones teológicas respecto al milenio: Postmilenial, Amilenial, Premilenial. Esta presentación está de acuerdo con la posición Premilenial y es la que se enseña a continuación. Creemos en un reinado literal de Cristo en el trono prometido de David, cuando Jesús, junto con los redimidos de la era de la iglesia, reinaremos con el remanente de Israel a las sobrevivientes de las naciones gentiles. El premilenialismo no confunde a Israel con la iglesia, ni la era de la iglesia con la era del milenio. Será un reino literal de mil años, con Jesús gobernando desde Jerusalén a toda la tierra.
La palabra de Dios, dice que sí.
SALVO SIEMPRE SALVO, es el lema de la secta creciendo en gracia, (Que más bien debería ser llamada creciendo en desgracia) pero esto no es exclusivo de ellos, una gran cantidad de grupos evangélicos enseñan lo mismo a sus feligreses. Veamos algunos de los muchos textos en los cuales se confirma esta verdad, por favor analice este estudio con mucho cuidado porque está en juego SU SALVACIÓN.
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Escuela como la entendemos hoy en día es el espacio a partir del cual la persona no sólo recibe conocimientos e información variada sino que además socializa con otras realidades que pueden no ser iguales a la propia. Mientras que Interpretación, se refiere en términos generales, al resultado de la acción de interpretar. Además, resulta ser una actividad propia y fundamental de varios campos que la utilizan como herramienta fundamental a la hora de exponer conclusiones, soluciones o posibles causas de aquellos hechos que investigan o de los que se ocupan.
Partiendo de estas definiciones, vemos que a través de la historia de la Iglesia, se han usado muchas pautas para interpretar la profecía, cristianos e intérpretes de la palabra de Dios difieren en su método general de abordar la profecía del tiempo del fin. Las teorías interpretativas han sido numerosas y ampliamente divergentes.
Es indudable que el libro de Apocalipsis es uno de los que despierta mayor curiosidad entre los creyentes. Para algunos, es un libro al cual les da temor acercarse, otros manifiestan interés en su estudio con el fin de pronosticar los eventos del fin de los tiempos. Sin duda, esto no es nuevo. Desde hace siglos, tanto los creyentes comunes como aquellos que tienen distintos grados de conocimiento han reflejado este interés de estudiar el Apocalipsis. Tal ha sido el compromiso de algunos al enfrentar su estudio, que han dado origen a lo que se conoce como las “escuelas de interpretación” del Apocalipsis. Estas han sido clasificadas como la «preterista», «historicista», «futurista», «dispensacionalista» y «espiritual». En este sentido, a menudo se combinan o se mezclan. Cabe anotar que esta son las más sobresalientes porque también existen otras con menos trascendencia.
No podemos negar la complejidad que acompaña la interpretación de Apocalipsis. Por lo tanto, al acercarnos a él debemos tener definida una estrategia de estudio, ya que es la única parte de la Palabra de Dios acerca de la que se han desarrollado varios sistemas básicos de interpretación, que por supuesto, tienen un fundamento y un argumento sólido, desarrollados durante mucho tiempo. Un breve desarrollo de estos sistemas, conocidos como “escuelas de interpretación”, nos ayudarán a obtener más conocimiento y a tomar una línea para interpretar los contenidos del libro. Cinco son las escuelas más conocidas, en base a las cuales generalmente se hacen las interpretaciones respectivas del Apocalipsis, las cuales desarrollaremos a continuación.
28/28 “La Séptima Trompeta” SEMINARIO DE ESTUDIO DE APOCALIPSIS MINISTERIO HNO. PIO
En cada profecía Dios destaca su interés y amor por su pueblo. Los siete sellos profetizan la historia social de la era cristiana, exponiendo especialmente el triste proceso de la apostasía. También se señala a Dios controlando la historia y terminando con el dolor y el sufrimiento. Las siete trompetas pintan la historia militar que ocurriría en la era cristiana en relación con la iglesia.
La palabra 'milenio' se refiere al período de mil años del reino de Cristo sobre la tierra. Seis veces se menciona en el capítulo 20 del libro del Apocalipsis. El milenio será un período durante el cual Satanás será atado en el abismo: “Y prendió al dragón, la serpiente antigua, que es el diablo y Satanás, y lo ató por mil años” (Ap. 20:2). Los santos de la iglesia y los de la tribulación reinarán con Cristo en su reino milenial: “Y vivieron y reinaron con Cristo mil años” (Ap. 20:6b). Existen 3 posiciones teológicas respecto al milenio: Postmilenial, Amilenial, Premilenial. Esta presentación está de acuerdo con la posición Premilenial y es la que se enseña a continuación. Creemos en un reinado literal de Cristo en el trono prometido de David, cuando Jesús, junto con los redimidos de la era de la iglesia, reinaremos con el remanente de Israel a las sobrevivientes de las naciones gentiles. El premilenialismo no confunde a Israel con la iglesia, ni la era de la iglesia con la era del milenio. Será un reino literal de mil años, con Jesús gobernando desde Jerusalén a toda la tierra.
La palabra de Dios, dice que sí.
SALVO SIEMPRE SALVO, es el lema de la secta creciendo en gracia, (Que más bien debería ser llamada creciendo en desgracia) pero esto no es exclusivo de ellos, una gran cantidad de grupos evangélicos enseñan lo mismo a sus feligreses. Veamos algunos de los muchos textos en los cuales se confirma esta verdad, por favor analice este estudio con mucho cuidado porque está en juego SU SALVACIÓN.
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The Five Solas -- Class 1, Sola ScripturaChuck Noren
The Five Solas is a series of classes exploring the five major slogans of the Protestant Reformation. In this class, we look at Sola Scriptura or the Bible Alone. This traces some of its origins, its development during the Reformation, and how it applies today.
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ANALYTICAL ESSAY 1 ANALYTICAL ESSAY February 17t.docxnettletondevon
ANALYTICAL ESSAY 1
ANALYTICAL ESSAY
February 17th,
2017
Introduction
ANALYTICAL ESSAY 2
Europe became a global power at the time it was experiencing internal religious upheaval1.
The reality is that these religious disorders had permanently divided Christians. The Spanish
explorers and the Portuguese had already appealed for the new lands, and Catholic missionaries
collected new souls for the church all the way from Mexico to Japan. It is worth noting that Luther
and Calvin together with a host of others had formed competing branches of the Europe’s
Protestants. There was a lot of disagreement between the Lutherans, Calvinist, and Anglicans on
various issues of doctrine and church organization. However, they all eventually broke from the
Roman Catholic Church2. The Protestant, priest and the laypeople recognized the new Christian
communities having new forms of ritual. There were also new social practices, new doctrines, and
clergy that had different personal lives and powers different from the clergy in the Roman Catholic.
A case in point is that Catholic priest was not to marry. Protestant clergy could marry on the other
hand. Catholic priest heard confessions and said mass. Protestant priesthood preached the word of
God and could not hear confession leaving it to the individual sinner and God undertaking that
such act of confession ought to be between the human heart and God3. This paper analyses three
ways states and societies attempted to create order in this disorderly time in European society
thereby discussing success and limitations of each those ways.
1. Attempting to create order via reshaping society through religion.
1Hutter, Swen, and Edgar Grande. "Politicizing Europe in the national electoral arena: A
comparative analysis of five West European countries, 1970–2010." JCMS: Journal of Common
Market Studies 52, no. 5 (2014): 1002-1018.
2Lualdi, Katharine J. 2012. Sources of The making of the West: peoples and cultures Fourth (4th)
Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
3Lualdi, Katharine J. 2012. Sources of The making of the West: peoples and cultures Fourth (4th)
Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Elizabeth Dennison
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Elizabeth Dennison
Elizabeth Dennison: but Catholicism remained dominant faith, so weathered the challenge some what?
Elizabeth Dennison
Elizabeth Dennison: unclear here--maybe recognized but did not accept or tolerate. should be plural usage here. This segment could be tightened up here
Elizabeth Dennison
Elizabeth Dennison: need to state what these are and based on what sources.
Elizabeth Dennison
Elizabeth Dennison: delete these headers f.
CHRIST AND CULTURE To Reinie CHRIST AND CULTURE VinaOconner450
CHRIST AND CULTURE
To Reinie
CHRIST AND CULTURE
Copyright, 1 95 1 , by Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporate.ct,
Printed in the United States of America
All rights in this book are reserved.
No part of the book may be used or reproduced
in any manner whatsoever without written per
mission except in the case of brief quotations
embodied in critical articles and reviews. For
information address:
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. ,
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First HARPER TORCHBOOK edition published 1956
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
]. The Enduring Problem
I. THE PROBLEM
II. TOW ARD A DEFINITION OF CHRIST
III. TOWARD THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE
IV. THE TYPICAL ANSWERS
2. Cbrist Against Culture
I. THE NE'V PEOPLE AND
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THE WORLD
"
II. TOLSTOY
'
S REJECTION OF CULTURE
III. A NECESSARY AND INADEQUATE POSITION
IV. THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
3. Tbe Cbrist of Culture
ix
xi
1
11
29
39
I. ACCOMMODATION TO CULTURE IN GNOSTICISM AND ABELARD 83
II.
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CULTURE-PROTESTANTISM
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AND A. RITSCHL 91
III. IN DEFENSE OF CULTURAL FAITH I 0 I
IV. THEOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS 108
4. Christ Above Culture
I. THE CHURCH OF THE CENTER
II. THE SYNTHESIS OF CHRIST AND CULTURE
III. SYNTHESIS IN QUESTION
5. Christ and Culture in Paradox
I. THE THEOLOGY OF THE DUALISTS
II. THE DUALISTIC MOTIF IN PAUL AND MARCION
n1. DUALISM IN LUTHER AND MODERN TIMES
lV. THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF DUAI.ISM
vii
116
120
141
viii CONTENTS
6. Christ the Transformer of Culture
I. THEOLOGICAL CONVICTIONS
II. THE CONVERSION MOTIF IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL
III. AUGUSTINE AND THE CONVERSION OF CULTURE
IV. THE VIEWS OF F. D. MAURICE
7. A "Concluding Unscientific Postscript"
I. CONCLUSION IN DECISION
II. THE RELATIVISM OF FAITH
III. SOCIAL EXISTENTIALISM
IV. FREEDOM IN DEPENDENCE
Index
230
234
24 1
249
257
FOREWORD
The present volume makes available in print and in expanded
form the series of lectures which Professor H. Richard Niebuhr
gave at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in January, 1 949,
on the Alumni Foundation. This lectureship was inaugurated in
1 945. Since that time the Seminary has had the privilege of present
ing to its students and alumni at the time of the midwinter convoca
tions the reflections of leading Christian thinkers on important
issues and, in part, of stimulating the publication of these refl.ec�
tions for the benefit of a wider audience.
The men and their subjects have been:
1945-Ernest Trice Thompson, Christian Bases of World Order
1946-Josef Lukl Hromadka, The Church at the Crossroads
1947-Paul Scherer, The Plight of Freedom
1948-D. Elton Trueblood, Alternative to Futility
194g-H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture
1950--Paul Minear, The Kingdom and the Power
1951 -G. Ernest Wright, God Who Acts
Dr. Niebuhr makes a distinguished contribution in this dear and
incisive study in Christian Ethics.
Austin Presbyterian Theological ...
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
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2. By the year 1950 Seventh-day
Adventist was more than a
century the church had had to
face several theological
challenges to its identity.
3. O The first came with the Great
Disappointment of October 1844,when the
central question involved “What is
Adventist in Adventism?”
O Second arrived with the Christ-centered
awakening in the late 1880s, when the
pressing question asked “What is the
Christian in Adventism?”
4. O The third surfaced in the 1920s with the
issue “What is the Fundamentalist in
Adventism?”
O That series of questions and the answers
to them largely shaped the development
of Seventh-day Adventist theology.
5. O The new era beginning in the 1950s was
different in the sense that instead of a
single question becoming the focal point,
all three question would be asked
simultaneously in various sector of
Adventism.
6. O The differing question and their answer
cumulatively led to the theological
tensions within Adventism that were at the
forefront of denominational discussions as
the church moved from the twentieth into
the twenty-first century .
7. O During the post-1950 era the various
sectors of the denomination’s membership
identified with one or another of the
previous issue. Thus any understanding of
the theological issue troubling Adventist
today depends upon a grasp of the
dynamics evidence in Adventism’s earlier
theological development.
8. Some Significant
Developments
O History is like constantly flowing and
changing stream. Adventism history is not
immune from that dynamic . And just as
the first half of the twentieth century
witnessed vast moves toward
professionalization in the larger culture, so
it was in Adventism. That professionalism
in time even affected religious studies in
the denomination.
9. O One of the first harbingers of the change
was the establishment of the Seventh-day
Adventist theological Seminary in the
early 1930s. The original purpose of the
Seminary was not to train ministers in
Adventist but to provide graduate studies
for religion teachers in Adventist college, a
move demanded by the rising standards
in collegiate education.
10. O As a forum for discussing important issues
the Bible teachers in 1943 formed the
Bible Research Fellowship. During its
decade of existence the Fellowship
examined about 120 scholarly papers on
such diverse topics as the shut door, the
jubilee calendar, the spiritual significance
of the sanctuary, and Armageddon.
11. O By 1952 membership in the fellowship
include 91 percent of all the Bible
teachers in Adventism’s English-language
colleges around the world.
12. O The discussion generated by the Bible
Research Fellowship bore fruit in several
direction. The 1952 Autumn Council of the
General Conference, for example, voted
to institutionalize the function of the
fellowship through the creation of an office
of Biblical Research (currently titled the
Biblical Research Institute) and a
permanent “Committee for Biblical Study
Research.” at this point the fellowship
disbanded.
13. O A third movement directly influenced by the
bible Research Fellowship was the publication
of the seven-volume Seventh-day Adventist
Bible Commentary (1953-1957)
O Practically all the authors and editors of the
Commentary had been members of the
Fellowship
O In short, the commentary was work of
scholarship that utilized the various academic
methodologies developed for exploring the
Bible.
14. O The 1960s and 1970s would see a
continued increase in academically
trained Bible Scholars. Not only did more
and more of the denomination’s religion
teachers have doctoral degrees but by the
mid-1970s and early 1980s some of the
church’s institutions began to offer Ph.D.'s
and Th.D.'s in several fields of religious
studies.
15. O At same time the denomination’s
constituency was itself becoming more
educated. With that professionalism came
a desire to probe into the theological,
historical, and even sociological
implications of the Adventist church and
its belief systems.
16. O This chapter will look at the present
tensions along four different lines.
O The search for historic Adventism
O The search for the meaning of 1888
O The search for Ellen White’s role
O The search for a theory of inspiration
17. The search for historic
Adventism
O A new crisis and theological alignment
erupted in Adventism with the September
1956 publication of Donald Grey
Barnhouse Eternity magazine article “Are
seventh-day Adventists Christians?”
18. O Barnhouse concluded that he was glad to
“say that we are delighted to do justice to
a much-maligned group of sincere
believers, and in our minds and hearts
take them out of the group of utter heretic
like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons,
and Christian Scientists, to acknowledge
them as redeemed brethren and members
of the Body of Christ”
19. O Martin had read widely in Adventist
publication and had come to the meeting
with a number of question regarding the
denomination beliefs. Those covered a
wide range of Adventist theology, but four
areas stuck out in Martin’s mind:
20. O That the atonement of Christ was not
completed upon the cross
O That the salvation is the result of grace
plus the works of the Law
O That the Lord Jesus Christ was a created
being, not from all eternity
O and that He partook of man’s sinful fallen
nature at the incarnation.
21. That the atonement of Christ
was not completed upon the
cross
Question on Doctrine could note in
agreement with the evangelicals that Jesus
had “provided” the sacrificial atonement on
the cross while still not yielding the Adventist
understanding that the atonement continued
in the heavenly sanctuary where Christ
“applied” the benefits of His sacrificial
atonement (see QOD 431-355
22. That the salvation is the result
of grace plus the works of the
Law
O Ellen white… she then pointed back to
post 1844 experience when the early
Adventist first grasped the full significance
of the three angels message. “One of the
landmarks under this message,” she
wrote “was the temple of God, seen by
His truth-seeking people in heaven, and
ark containing the law of God.
23. O The light of the Sabbath of the fourth
commandment flashed its strong rays in
the pathway of the fourth commandment
flashed its strong rays in the pathway of
the transgressors of God's law.
O According to Seventh-day Adventist belief,
there is, and can be, no salvation through
the law or by human works of the law, but
only through the saving grace of God.
24. That the Lord Jesus Christ was
a created being, not from all
eternity
He adopted human nature and when He
returned to His father, He not only carried
with the humanity which He Had assumed
at the incarnation, but He retained His
perfect human nature forever-thenceforth
eternally identifying Himself with race He
had redeemed.
25. and that He partook of man’s
sinful fallen nature at the
incarnation.
O He took “mans nature in its fallen
condition, but “Christ did not in the least
participate in its sin.
26. O In the autumn of 1957 the Adventist
leadership published Questions on Doctrine
as a quasi-official reply to the questions raised
by Martin and Barnhouse
O That volume, largely engineered by Froom
and Anderson, received wide distribution
among Adventists and went to thousands non-
Adventist clergy and teachers of theology
O By 1970 from estimated that the total
circulation had exceeded 138,000 copies.
27. O Martin published his response to Question
0n Doctrine through Zondervan in 1960 as
The truth About Seventh-day Adventism.
He treated Adventist theology with a great
deal of respect and concluded that
Adventist were indeed Christians rather
than cultic.
28. The search for the meaning of
1888
O By 1988 the 1888rs had a well-developed
theology. The preface to the second
edition of 1888 Re-examined nicely
summarizes its essential aspects:
29. O 1. Christ sacrifice is not merely provisional
but effective for the whole world, so that the
only reason anybody can be lost is that he
has chosen to resist the saving grace of
God
O 2. Christs sacrifice has legally justified
every man.
O 3. Justification by faith is more than a legal
declaration of acquittal it changes the heart
30. O 4. believers are to have the new covenant
experience in which God writes His Law in
their heart.
O 5. Gods love is active rather than passive
in that He actively searches out sinners.
O 6. it is difficult to be lost and easy to be
saved if one understands and believes
how good the news is.
31. O 7. Christ came in the fallen sinful nature of
man after the fall and demonstrated
perfect righteousness.
O 8. because Jesus condemned sin in the
flesh then has become unnecessary in the
light of His ministry it is impossible to have
true New testament faith in Christ and
continue to sin to be truly human is to be
Christ like in character.
32. O 9. the only element Gods people need in
order to prepare for Christ return is
genuine New need in order to prepare for
Christ return is genuine New testament
faith it is impossible to have faith works by
love.
33. The search for Ellen G. White
Role and authority
O A third avenue that led to division in
Adventist circles during the post - 1950
period had to do with the role and
authority of Ellen White.
O Thus such idea as her being a hundred
years ahead of her ideas and facts came
directly to her through heavenly revelation
34. O The first two thirds of the twentieth century
also saw the widespread acceptance of
the that Ellen White should function as a
divine commentary on the Bible.
O In terms of their usage of Ellen White
many Adventists had come to the Place
where they were making what she herself
called the lesser light into the greater light.
35. O The next few years saw Spectrum publish
several articles that indicated that Ellen
white had used material from other
authors.
36. O Interestingly enough, all of those issues
had been settled in the 1840s and
reflected upon at the 1919 Bible
Conference.
O Early in my youth I was asked several
times Are you a prophet? I have ever
responded I am the Lord messenger.
O Because in the last days many who boldly
claim that they are prophet are a reproach
to the cause of Christ.
37. The Search for a theory of
Inspiration
O Closely related to the topic of Ellen White
are issues connected with the inspiration
of the Bible.
O We saw in previous chapters Ellen White’s
rather moderate view on the topic and the
action taken by the 1883 General
Conference session on thought rather
than verbal.
38. O In the meantime, certain development
transpiring in the church would affect
Adventism understanding of inspiration.
O A second development involved the
increasing number of Seventh-day Adventist
who had advanced degrees in theology and
other academic fields that may have exposed
them both to the various forms of literary and
biblical criticism and to the authoritative use of
human reason as a basic for doing theology.
39. O At the other end of the inspiration
spectrum are those Adventist who
definitely promote the extreme of the
fundamentalists of the 1920s One recent
books, for example argued that all the
claims that the Bible makes on any
subject theology, history, chronology,
numbers etc.. Are absolutely trustworthy
and dependable. Issue in revelation and
inspiration.
40. Perspective
O In many ways the period beginning in
1950 has been difficult one for Adventism
theologically.
O The latest era in the denomination’s
theological development has seen
tensions that wont go away.
O Of course theology tensions have always
existed in Adventism, but since the 1950s
they have tended to move more
consistently to middle stage.