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Christology in the Christian church in AD 451. Nonetheless, the debate concerning the divinity of Christ has been repeated within many denominations, resulting in each denomination developing its own Christology. This article explores the development of the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the divinity of Christ by diachronically examining the Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly (SSLQ). The SSLQ is a valuable resource because it is essentially written as a textbook for church members. The shifting descriptions of Christ’s divinity throughout the history of the periodical demonstrate the evolution of the denomination’s understanding of this subject. Although there are many ways to speak of the divinity of Christ, each expression demonstrates a different aspect of divinity. Initially, the SSLQ used “divinity,” “equality,” and “only begotten Son” to describe the divinity of Christ. Yet, these words did not indicate that Christ was equal to the Father. As time went on, the Adventist Church expressed the equality of the divinity of the Father and the Son by applying terms such as “eternity,” “pre-existent,” “Jehovah,” and “self-existent” to Christ when they had previously been applied only to the Father. This changing terminology is a reflection of the Adventist Church’s gradually shifting and developing understanding of Christ’s divinity.
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Kim, Sungjin.
"THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST IN THE ADVENTIST SABBATH
SCHOOL LESSON QUARTERLY FROM 1888 TO 1931."
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
61.1
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Available at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/auss/vol61/iss1/6
