Everything about Seventh-day Adventist Education totally explained
The
Seventh-day Adventist educational system is the second-largest
Christian school system in the world, after the Roman Catholic system (see
Catholic school).
It has a total of 6,966 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.3 million students world-wide.
The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. The church supports
holistic education:
» "Mental, physical, social, and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to humanity form a core of values that are essential aspects of the Adventist education philosophy." According to Cottrell, Hasel used his position as dean of the
Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at
Andrews University to make Drs.
Sakai Kubo,
Ivan Blazen,
Fritz Guy, and
Larry Geraty feel very unwelcome. His study is now available online from
Adventist Archives.
Former
General Conference President
Robert S. Folkenberg's "
Total Commitment to God
" initiative was voted by the Annual Council in
Costa Rica in 1996. In 1998 Folkenberg's action to establish a "Board of Ministerial and Theological Education" in every Division of the church to oversee its theological seminaries "has evoked significant criticism in some areas, including North America", and was put on hold. There was concern over the document
International Coordination and Supervision of Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial and Theological Education.
GC (General Conference) Sets Standards for Ministerial and Theologic Education See a response
Toward Spiritual Assessment in Seventh-day Adventist Colleges and Universities by Duane C. McBride, which appeared in the April/May 1998 issue of
Adventist Education.
According to one article, at the 2001 annual meeting of the
Andrews Society for Religious Studies, "not a single person had anything good to say about this program. No one. Perhaps there was secret support for it, but no one spoke out loud expressing the slightest support". This is despite a range of people being present.
See also
2003 Conference on Religious and Theological Education,
Adventist Today article. See the 1997 articles
Tensions Peak in Adventist Higher Education and
Religion Professors Face Conference Presidents.
Education by area
North America
The
North American Division Office of Education oversees 1049 schools with 65,000 students in the
United States,
Canada, and
Bermuda.
Asia
In some Asian countries such as
Hong Kong, Adventist schools are referred to as "Sam Yuk" or similar, meaning literally "threefold". This refers to a
holistic education involving the three components of
mind,
body and
spirit/soul. Contemporary approaches commonly include a fourth component,
social.
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