Charles Scriven (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013.Kevin Lamb, "Scriven gets top position at KCMA." Dayton Daily News May 1, 2001 Dayton Business Journal July 19, 2010 He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation and chair of the board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.
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.Biographical sketch, Southwestern Adventist University, September 2011.
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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