Edward Heppenstall

A question of prime significance for Seventh-day Adventist preachers and educators is: To what extent is the total effect of our methods of preaching and teaching upon the personal­ity and the life of our people a genuinely Christian…

Andrews University, through its extension schools, is making a significant contribution to the upbuilding of the ministry. For the past two months about eighty workers from all parts of the Northern European Division have been…

EXISTENTIALISM'S dependence upon,  and appeal to, the subjective repudiates the authority of any body of beliefs, or the fixity of the eternal truths of Scripture. It is a revolt against fixed systems and doc­trines on the basis that such…

The perils to be found in Christian exisentialism are neither obvious nor easily discerned. On the contrary, existentialism's claim to relevancy and involvement of the whole of man's existence in truth offers much to be desired.

THE Adventist interpreta­ion of the judgment of Revelation 14:7 has empha­sized in particular that phase known as the investigative judgment of the saints. But does the hour of God's judg­ment have yet a wider scope? Does the period beginning…

1. Importance of the Heavenly Sanctuary

* Our readers will appreciate this broad view of the sub­ject of the judgment hour in the light of the sanctuary service. This will answer some questions arising from the book The…

One of the most serious problems facing the remnant church and its ministry is that of making the fundamental certainties of the third angel's message alive and vital in personal Christian experience.

"The greatest deception of…

IT IS CUSTOMARY to magnify the greatness of man above the revelation from God and point with undisguised satisfaction to the natural goodness of man in the hope that ultimately the world will arrive at the millennium. But the belief that…

What men and women crave in our preaching is to hear a Voice from beyond and to catch the outline of a loving Face. The only adequate response to such a yearning is God's saving power manifested toward the souls of men and women through…

The Law* in Adventist Theology and Christian Experience

* The word law (Heb. torah) includes all of God's re­vealed will, not merely the Ten Commandments. The expres­sion "the law and the prophets" (Matt. 7:12) indicates a twofold…

THOSE who today claim to experience the Holy Spirit's gift of tongues invariably appeal to the glossolalia in the Corinthian church as recorded in chapter fourteen to substantiate their own position.

In his letter to the church at…

IN TURNING next to the discussion on inspiration, the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:16, 17: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the…

THIS church has no clearly defined and developed doctrine of revelation and inspiration. We have aligned ourselves with the evangelical or traditional position. This is not to deny its adequacy. But as far as this presentation is concerned,…

THE KEY figure in the universal drama of sin and salvation is God's Son, Jesus Christ, the most important and, in a sense, revolutionary figure the world has ever known. "Through him God chose to reconcile the whole universe to…

Should a teacher in a Christian school or a preacher in the pulpit expect freedom to promote concepts of truth that differ from the church's? To what extent can the church Biblically require conformity to its understanding of doctrine?…

Since 1844, Adventist teaching on Christ's high priestly ministry in the Most Holy Apartment of the heavenly sanctuary has centered upon the doctrine of a pre-Advent judgment.

Until October 22, 1844, early Adventists believed that…

In the Old Testament book of Daniel and the New Testament book of the Apocalypse the fulfillment of certain prophecies is grounded in the time periods of the 1260 and 2300 days. No church can claim to interpret these prophecies correctly…