From Pastor Doug* An Amazing Fact: Grigori Rasputin, also known as the Mad Monk of Russia, was born a simple peasant, but when he entered Saint Petersburg on foot in 1903, this illiterate yet charismatic Orthodox monk soon persuaded many…
Month: June 2012
History of Seventh-day Adventist Views on the Trinity, pt. 1
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society, 17/1 (Spring 2006): 125–139. Article copyright © 2006 by Merlin D. Burt. History of Seventh-day Adventist Views on the Trinity By Merlin D. Burt* The last decade has seen an increased anti-Trinitarian agitation within…
History of Seventh-day Adventist Views on the Trinity, pt. 2
(History of Seventh-day Adventist Views on the Trinity) con’t… During the first decades of the twentieth century, Adventists found themselves battling higher criticism and the “new modernism” growing in Christianity. Protestant Fundamentalists were resisting this trend, and Adventists often found…
The Trinity Is A Paradox
The Trinity Is A Paradox by John W. Reeve* The conception of God as Trinity has always been both central and problematic to Christianity, yet “Three persons in one God” summarizes biblical revelation about the nature of the Godhead. Externally,…