Charles Scriven | |
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Born | 1945 Prineville, Oregon, U.S. |
Occupation | Theologian |
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Charles Scriven (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013.[1][2] He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation [3] and chair of the board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.[4]
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.[1][5]