ATSS: Charles Scriven, “Can We Grow Up? Truthfulness, Matthew 18, Community & Conversation”
28 June 2025 |
Conversation among different kinds of Adventists is often either a bit mean-spirited, or entirely non-existent.
I will use both contemporary philosophy of knowledge and a key passage from Matthew to argue that failure by Adventists to interact across lines of convictional difference in vigorous, open-minded conversation is an egregious and tragic moral failure.
The homework, for people who want to think about this before we discuss it together, is all of Matthew 18.
Teacher:
Charles Scriven, now retired in Tennessee, taught at Walla Walla, served as pastor at Sligo in Takoma Park, and was president of Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist) and, later, of Kettering College. For about 13 years, he was chair of the board of the Adventist Forum. His publications (besides many journal articles) include The Transformation of Culture: Christian Social Ethics after H. Richard Niebuhr and The Promise of Peace, the latter church-published (Pacific Press).
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Coming up:
- Laurence Turner
- Kevin Burton
- Michael Scofield
