I have to mention Ryan Bell again (No, I am not his press secretary), he just posted a phenomenal article on the Spectrum blog, An Adventism I Can Believe In. It’s based on the article I blogged about yesterday from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist President Jan Paulsen. Good stuff, but make sure you read Paulsen’s article first. Ryan says, Paulsen’s article is one to print out and read over and over again. I agree, but so is An Adventism I Can Believe In. Thanks Ryan!
Jan Paulsen
Ryan Bell and I were having a discussion last week with some friends about whether or not the General Conference President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jan Paulsen, is a former student of Jürgen Moltmann. We’d heard rumors that Paulsen attended Universität Tübingen in Germany where Motlmann was a professor for many years.
We now have confirmation. Yes! Yesterday Ryan sent me an article he found by Paulsen, titled “Christ’s Healing in a Changing World”, where the president writes:
Quite simply, we cannot express our faith—our desire to imitate Christ—in seclusion; our values and our beliefs find their true meaning only within the context of human relationships. In the words of my former teacher Jürgen Moltmann, “Likeness to God cannot be lived in isolation. It can be lived only in human community” (J. Moltmann, God in Creation, p. 222). [italics mine]
You can read the entire article Adventist World. It’s worth the read.
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