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Toward A Biblical View Of Collective Responsibility For The Seventh-Day Adventist Church In The Twenty-First Century, Miroslav Danihel

Master's Theses

The notion of collective responsibility is an issue that is not very popular in the postmodern society. However, the idea of collective responsibility can be found in the Bible. This thesis examines philosophical, ethical, and biblical sources on the subject. The biblical evidence focuses on examining Josh 7 and Ezek 18, as well as some of the New Testament contributions to the topic. The relationship between collective responsibility, collective personality, and collective punishment is discussed. The thesis acknowledges collective responsibility as a valid biblical doctrine and proposes its application for church members, leaders, and the decision-making process in the Seventh-day …

Praying For Our Leaders, Tom Shepherd

Faculty Publications

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The Scholar And The Word Of God: Reflections On 2 Peter 1:16-21, Thomas Shepherd

Faculty Publications

The Scriptures are at the center of who we are as a people and as a body of scholars. In handling the Word of God, we are faced with choices that seem to pull us in two directions. On the one hand, faith and conviction call for expressions and actions that are loyal to trusted beliefs and traditions. On the other hand, scholarly methodologies demand objective impartiality and unbiased investigation leading to results that may challenge long held positions. I do not have the illusion that in a short presentation such as this I could even begin to resolve the …

The Problem Of Ordination: Lessons From Early Christian History, Darius Jankiewicz

Faculty Publications

Like most modern Christian denominations, Seventh-­‐day Adventists acknowledge the pastoral call through the rite of ordination. We have also adopted the three-­‐fold structure of ministry in the church— pastor, elder, and deacon—each initiated by a separate rite of laying-­‐on-­‐of-­‐hands and each referred to as ordination. The lack of unambiguous Scriptural data, however, has resulted in a decades-long intradenominational discussion on the meaning of and qualifications for ordination of pastors, elders, and deacons. It is indisputable, and Scripturally warranted, that Christian community needs its authoritative leaders in order to function and propagate its mission in the world, otherwise chaos would reign. …

The Everlasting Covenant, Peter M. Van Bemmelen

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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On Being Remnant, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Holy Spirit In The Hebrew Scriptures, Jiri Moskala

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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"He Spake And It Was Done": Luther's Creation Theology In His 1535 Lectures On Genesis 1:1-2:4, Denis Kaiser

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Considering Levitical Food Laws, Jiri Moskala

Faculty Publications

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The Trinity In The Old Testament, Jiri Moskala

Faculty Publications

The fundamental mystery of the Christian faith is belief in the Triune God. As Seventh‑day Adventists, we confess that God is One but manifested in three distinct persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. When we speak about God, we need to remember that weenter holy ground, and we need to do it with deep humility, knowing our limits. We are using imperfect human language to describe an infinite God. The transcendent God always surpasses even our finest categories of thinking and logic.

Looking At The End From The Beginning, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

Eschatology, the study of last things, has been approached mostly from two distinct viewpoints. Some provide a systematic study of the question—as can be seen in systematic theologies of all colors, which predominantly focus upon New Testament texts. Others concentrate on specific books relevant to eschatological teachings—chiefly the apocalyptic literature of the Old Testament (including the Book of Daniel) and the New Testament (as found in the Book of Revelation). The Pentateuch—the first five books of the Bible—is a corpus of literature that has not been studied extensively with this objective. Yet it contains vocabulary of a distinctly eschatological nature.

“He Spake And It Was Done”: Luther’S Creation Theology In His 1535 Lectures On Genesis 1:1–2:4, Denis Kaiser

Faculty Publications

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Ellen G. White On Biblical Hermeneutics, P. Gerard Damsteegt

Faculty Publications

Most of Ellen G. White’s life was spent in the nineteenth century as the foundation of the modern historical-critical method of Bible interpretation was being laid. She frequently commented on the importance of the Bible to our lives and how to interpret it. When the church was faced with difficult issues she successfully guided it, always appealing to Bible principles. This paper attempts to bring together Ellen G. White’s views on the objectives, principles, and methods for interpreting Scripture in order to discover the truth about God’s teachings and practices in the Bible.

Women's Ordination, Gender Identity, And The Sabbath, Mathilde Frey

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Preaching Christ From Daniel [Review] / Sidney Greidanus, Zdravko Stefanovic

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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The Verbal System Of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated On The Basis Of Classical Prose [Review] / Jan Joosten, Kenneth Bergland

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Novum Testamentum Graece: Nestle-Aland, 28th Ed. [Review] / Institute For New Testament Textual Research, Carl P. Cosaert

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Ar Trebui Femeile Să Fie Hirotonite Ca Pastori? Considerații Asupra Vechiului Testament - Partea A I, Richard M. Davidson

Faculty Publications

In the modern discussion over whether women should be ordained as pastors, the foundational passage for both those who affirm and those who oppose women’s ordination is Gen 1–3. Those who affirm women’s ordination find in the Genesis creation accounts a statement of full equality without hierarchy of man and woman, set forth as the divinely ordained creation order. They see the rest of Scripture calling us back toward that creation ideal, and allowing for women to fill any position of authority to which God calls and gifts them. Those who oppose the ordination of women also go to Gen …

The Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Hierarchy Goes To Seminary, Terry Dwain Robertson

Faculty Publications

In Information Science studies, the Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy is a conventional construct for making sense of the terms. However, when examined with any rigor, the distinctions become challenged and the hierarchy appears to fail. I suggest that the reason for this is the tacit classification of this hierarchy as a disciplinary ontological narrative. With context-appropriate definitions and delimitations, the DIKW hierarchy can still be useful as a model for specific applications in information literacy pedagogy. This is illustrated in the context of theological education by using the construct to differentiate the identification of primary sources in the Seminary disciplines.

The Old Testament Trinitarian Thinking And The Qur'an: Dialoguing With Muslims, Jiri Moskala

Faculty Publications

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Kingly Authority: Is It Finding A Place In The Adventist Church?, Stan Patterson

Faculty Publications

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Leona Running Awarded Honorary Doctorate, Keri Suarez

Lake Union Herald

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On Vacation With God: A Guide To Spiritual And Physical Renewal, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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More Holy Days For Adventists? Revisiting The Issue Of Israelite Festivals, Roy E. Gane

Faculty Publications

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In The Wilderness: Of Tassels, Wanderings, And The Promised Land, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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On God’S Team, Maria Delgado

Lake Union Herald

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Jesus Got Me, Anthony Don Magbanua

Lake Union Herald

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The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah [Review] / Schreiber, Mordecai, Zdravko Stefanovic

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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The One, The Many And The Trinity: Joseph A. Bracken And The Challenge Of Process Metaphysics [Review] / Pugliese, Marc A., Richard Rice

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Institute Of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum Newsletter Volume 33.1, Kevin Burton, Paul J. Ray Jr.

Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter

Nineveh Symposium, Kevin Burton

2011 ASOR Meetings, Paul J. Ray, Jr.

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