Adventist Currents

"Adventist Currents" is a discontinued magazine which was published independently by progressively-minded Seventh-day Adventists from 1983 until 1988.

History

The first issue of "Adventist Currents" appeared in July 1983. [http://jewel.andrews.edu/record=b1452473 "Adventist Currents"] entry in the Andrews University library catalog] The magazine was published independently by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, [http://www.adventistreview.org/2004-1502/news.html "Questions on Doctrine" Annotated, Republished] by Mark Kellner. "Adventist Review"] specifically, by Mars Hill Publications, Inc. in Loma Linda, California. It was a response to the controversial dismissal of Seventh-day Adventist theologian Desmond Ford in 1980. [" [http://h0bbes.wordpress.com/2006/10/24/the-israel-dammon-trial/ The Israel Dammon Trial] " blog by Adventist lecturer Jeff Crocombe]

Perhaps its most commonly cited article is "Currents Interview: Walter Martin" by Douglas Hackleman, "Adventist Currents" 1:1 (July 1983), p.15 (available online on independent sites). Walter Martin was an evangelical who had much to do with the Adventist church's increasing acceptance as a valid Christian denomination, which is also related to the production of "Questions on Doctrine".

Another significant article was by Molleurus Couperus, " [http://www.ellenwhiteexposed.com/headinjury.htm The Significance of Ellen White’s Head Injury] " "Adventist Currents" 1:6 (June 1985), p. 31 (link points to a republished version on a site critical of Adventism). In this article Couperus, an Adventist physician, controversially suggested that church co-founder Ellen G. White's visions were due to temporal lobe epilepsy. Another physician, Donald Peterson, has responded in " [http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/visions.html Visions or Seizures: Was Ellen White the Victim of Epilepsy?] ", which is published on the official Ellen G. White Estate website.

Volume 1 spanned 1983 to 1985 and contained 6 issues. Volume 2 spanned 1985 to 1987 with 4 issues. The final issue was Volume 3:1 published in April 1988. Several issues of a newsletter were published in 1990. [http://jewel.andrews.edu/record=b1452474 Adventist currents: the newsletter] entry in the Andrews University library catalog]

It has been claimed that the magazine "Adventist Today" filled the void left by "Adventist Currents" when it ceased publication.

See also

* Progressive Adventism
* List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
* "Spectrum", the leading progressive Adventist magazine (as of 2007)
* "Adventist Today", other liberal/progressive Adventist magazine
* "Evangelica" by Desmond Ford and others

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