QUESTIONS ON DOCTRINE AND THE NATURE OF CHRIST

Introduction

The book namely, “Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine”, which is usually recognized by the short heading “Questions on Doctrine”, was printed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the year 1957 to assist in explaining the concept of Adventism to the conservative Christians and the evangelistic. (Knight 2003, Pp.522) This Good Book gained wide reception by the church of the Adventist in the community of the evangelicals, where it had until that time been extensively considered as a religious cult. Nevertheless, it also turned out to be one of the most debatable books in the history of Adventism and the liberation of this work brought protracted disaffection and severance in between the evangelicalism and Adventism.

Discussion

In the theological and diachronic prologue to the new glossed publication of the book Questions on Doctrine, George Knight correctly qualified the book as the most dissentious book in history of Seventh-day Adventist. This book was originally published to help create tranquility between the conservative Protestantism and the Seventh-day Adventist; the release of this book release brought lingering estrangement and partition in the Adventist factions that grew up around it. (Besant 2010, Pp.10)

The publication of this book some half a century ago unintentionally enforced the church to filter its mysticism of expiation, its comprehension of the human/divine nature of the Jesus, and of the meaning of the experience of redemption. In an indirect way, this book exposed that the Adventists needed to do better theological and biblical indication on the said concepts. Although, some people have condemned the initial and late republication of this book, the original publication expressed how feeble our theological system was in a few domains and showed that it needed finer work. Owing to the controversy created by that book, nowadays our Adventist theological system is ...