Richard M. Davidson

Genesis 1 and 2 set forth God’s original design for human sexuality, and its profound portrayal of sexual love and marriage between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is paradigmatic for the rest of the biblical treatment of the subject.¹…

Controversial issues have the potential of splitting the church. To avoid this dan­ger, church leaders need to exercise much care and, at the same time, show firmness…

The conference was convened on Wednesday, October 17; the delegation was composed of 90 people repre­senting 27,000 church members. The conference agenda included progress reports concerning new mission fields,…

The first Jerusalem Council, described in Acts 15, has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies.¹ In this article, we will look at these deliberations as a model of how the early church dealt with controversial doctrinal…

Doctrinal controversies are not unique to the Seventh- day Adventist Church. The history of Christianity itself shows that doctrinal and theological controversies characterize the growth and experience of the church. Francis Wernick observes,…

 According to the Bible writers’ own claims, and in harmony with the tra­ditional understanding held by ancient interpreters and most biblical scholars until the rise of historical criticism during the Enlightenment, approximately 35 individuals…

What is the nature of Biblical typology in general and sanctuary typology in particular? Does the traditional view of typology adopted by Seventh-day Adventists in their interpretation of the Levitical institutions stand the test of sola…

Many Christians regard the Old Testament Levitical institutions as little more than a historical curiosity, to be studied only for information concerning the religious milieu of ancient Israel Others view the Hebrew sanctuary and its services…

In the summer of 1980, a watershed conference at Glacier View, Colorado,¹ examined an attempted refutation of the key pillars of Seventh-day Adventist prophetic interpretation.

In the aftermath…