{{Short description|American theologian (born 1945)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Charles Scriven| | caption = | birth_date = 1945 | birth_place = Prineville, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Theologian | salary = | networth = | website = | footnotes = }} {{Seventh-day Adventism}}
'''Charles Scriven''' (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013.<ref name="DDN1">Kevin Lamb, "Scriven gets top position at KCMA." ''Dayton Daily News'' May 1, 2001 [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DDNB&p_theme=ddnb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F51F5D3531C8C1B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]</ref><ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2010/07/19/story5.html Dayton Business Journal July 19, 2010]</ref> He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kmcfoundation.org/about_us/board_of_directors.cfm |title=Kettering Foundation - Board of Directors |publisher=Kmcfoundation.org |date= |access-date=2011-11-08}}</ref> and chair of the board of Adventist Forums, publisher of ''Spectrum magazine''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Carpenter, Alexander |url=http://spectrummagazine.org/podcast/2008/06/24/test |title=Reconstructing Seventh-day Adventism - Charles Scriven |publisher=Spectrum Magazine |date=2008-06-26 |access-date=2011-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128081446/http://spectrummagazine.org/podcast/2008/06/24/test |archive-date=2012-01-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== 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.<ref name="DDN1" /><ref>[http://southwesterner.swau.edu/?p=2006 Biographical sketch], Southwestern Adventist University, September 2011.</ref>
==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)
== See also == {{Portal|Christianity|Biography|Oregon}} * Seventh-day Adventist Church * Seventh-day Adventist theology * Seventh-day Adventist eschatology * History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church * 28 fundamental beliefs * ''Questions on Doctrine'' * Teachings of Ellen White * Inspiration of Ellen White * Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church * Investigative judgment * The Pillars of Adventism * Second Advent * Baptism by Immersion * Conditional Immortality * Historicism * Three Angels' Messages * End times * Sabbath in Seventh-day Adventism * Ellen G. White * Adventist Review * Adventist * Seventh-day Adventist Church Pioneers * Seventh-day Adventist worship * Adventist Health Studies * Ellen G. White Estate
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