Die Frage, wie Adventisten sich gegenüber den Forderungen des Militär-dienstes verhalten sollen, wurde während der gesamten Geschichte der Sie-benten-Tags-Adventisten kontrovers diskutiert. Zwei wesentliche Ursachen können dafür benannt werden: 1. Einerseits existiert in den Vereinigten Staa-ten eine Berufsarmee, die nur im besonderen Krie…[Read more]

Nathan Brown’s book was written as a companion volume to a recent set of Sabbath School study guides (third quarter 2019). It is thus divided into thir-teen chapters each of about eight pages. As such, it is directed towards a popular readership within the church. The sequencing of the chapters is not particularly logical and not, one suspects, w…[Read more]

Millions of Bible verses are shared on Twitter every year. This article examines the Bible on Twitter, by looking at Bible verse images pro-duced by three organisations: Faithlife/Logos Bible Software, Dutch Bible Society, and Graceway. I examine the way these three organisa-tions mediate the Bible on social media. The outputs of these compa-nies…[Read more]

This study attempts to find and describe a leadership style for a church organization that matches the needs and expectations of the generation called “Millennials.” Lessons are drawn from the work-place where employing entities have had to adapt to the strengths, weaknesses, demands and expectations of a generation that carries particular cul…[Read more]

The article firstly deals with church authority in general and with the way this is understood and functions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. All church authority is delegated authority, and the church’s authority is always subject to God and the revelation in his Word. The Adventist governmental structure has not always sufficiently r…[Read more]

To what extent can the Bible, the Christian message, and especially the ministers, as their public representatives, have an impact upon our post-modern society? As public role models of God’s pathos, some leading biblical prophets demonstrated a strong conviction nourished by the basic texts of Israel’s heritage. Consequently, they stood firm for…[Read more]

This article aims to review the main biblical texts that refer to the pas-toral function in the Old and New Testaments. In reviewing these texts as a whole, it is possible to identify a series of orientations that can contribute to the elaboration of a Theology of Pastoral Ministry from an Adventist perspective. There are some essential concepts…[Read more]

Adventist ethics is an evolving field that, thus far, has lacked compre-hensive theoretical grounding. Publications in this academic area fall into six major categories that reflect the importance of the Bible, de-nominational tradition, and cultural contexts; however, meta-ethics of an Adventist kind is yet to be developed. Therefore, this…[Read more]

Editorial preface to Spes Christiana 31.1

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, by negotiating the authorship and authority of its derivative readings, discusses the place of Israel vis-à-vis Christianity through almost fannish retellings of the lives of the patriarchs of Israel. The text thereby walks a line between nostalgic and novel readings of foundational narratives, in some…[Read more]