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Toward an Adventist Theology of Health (Part 9) — A Necessary Medical Metanoia Written by:  February 11, 2021 In this column I will return to a subject I first discussed in a series of columns beginning in 2015. In those previous articles I tried to articulate an Adventist Theology of Health that takes into account not only the internal theological vision of our community but also the external socio-cultural context in which we are called to articulate our message on health. The internal vision and the external context are both dynamic realities. They require not only application, loyalty ...

Friday Forum Book Group — Pandemic Written by:  December 11, 2020 On Friday, December 11, 2020, Adventist Forum held its Friday Forum Book Group with panelists Andy Lampkin, PhD, bioethics professor at AdventHealth University, Mark Carr, MDiv, PhD, regional director of Ethics for Providence Health & Services, and Hanz Gutierrez, chair of the Systematic Theology Department at the Italian Adventist Theological Faculty of “Villa Aurora” and director of the CECSUR (Cultural Center for Human and Religious Sciences) in Florence, Italy. They discussed  In the Time of Coronavirus: Chronicles ...

Richard Rice and the Question of Eschatology– Part III Written by:  In my two previous columns (here and here) I pointed out that Richard Rice’s latest book  The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities, reminds us that our understanding of God is pivotal for determining the way we live, more than we usually believe. Our theological premises concerning God, in an implicit and structural way (i.e. unconsciously), model and drastically determine what we are and do. But between our theological premises and our concrete life there is not simply a one-way street. There exist...