Charles Scriven

Charles Scriven (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013.[1][2] He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation [3] and Chair of the Board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.[4]

Charles Scriven
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Born1945
Prineville, Oregon
OccupationTheologian
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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.[1][5]

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)
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See also

References
  1. Kevin Lamb, "Scriven gets top position at KCMA." Dayton Daily News May 1, 2001
  2. Dayton Business Journal July 19, 2010
  3. "Kettering Foundation - Board of Directors". Kmcfoundation.org. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  4. Carpenter, Alexander (2008-06-26). "Reconstructing Seventh-day Adventism - Charles Scriven". Spectrum Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-01-28. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  5. Biographical sketch, Southwestern Adventist University, September 2011.


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