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Washington Adventist University was established in 1904 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Washington Training College. In 1907, it was renamed Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, in 1914, Washington Missionary College, in 1961, Columbia Union College, and in 2009 received its current name. [3]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [4] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007, it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world, and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.
Washington Adventist University, Takoma Park, Maryland, United States; Not Church owned, but closely aligned with the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Hartland College, a division of Hartland Institute, Rapidan, Virginia, United States; Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia, Madison, Tennessee, United States
College Park (previously "College Town") is a small, leafy, residential eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is always the most expensive suburb in South Australia , with a median sale price of $3.3 million as of 2024.
Desmond Ford (2 February 1929 – 11 March 2019) [1] was an Australian theologian who studied evangelicalism . Within the Seventh-day Adventist Church he was a controversial figure. [2] He was dismissed from ministry in the Adventist church in 1980, following his critique of the church's investigative judgment teaching.
Earle Hilgert (1923-2020) - American academic theologian, administrator and librarian [308] Victor Houteff (1885–1955) – Bulgarian who founded the Shepherd's Rod who was disfellowshipped by the Seventh-day Adventist Church [309] Moses Hull (1836–1907) – former pastor who became a Spiritualist lecturer and author.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, Ellen G. White, her husband James Springer White, Joseph Bates, and J. N. Andrews.
Benjamin George Wilkinson (1872–1968) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, educator, and theologian.He served also as Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as Washington Adventist University) which is located in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Wilkinson is considered one of the originators of the King James Only beliefs.