Saturday, September 15, 2012
Seminar: Dr Rolf J Pöhler
3.00 PM, Ladies Chapel
“Understanding continuity and change in Seventh-day Adventist teaching.” Rolf is director of the Institute of Adventist Studies at Friedensau Adventist University in Germany. Seminar organised by Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church. Freewill offering.
Rolf J Pöhler (1949) was born and raised in Germany, the heartland of the Protestant Reformation. After his pastoral training at Seminar Marienhöhe in Darmstadt and some work experience in Berlin, he attended Andrews University (Michigan, USA), where he earned MA and PhD degrees in theology in 1975 and 1995, respectively. His doctoral dissertation is entitled “Change in Seventh-day Adventist theology.” It was published in two volumes by Peter Lang (1999 and 2000) and deals with the dynamics of doctrinal continuity and change from a historical and hermeneutical perspective.
For 16 years, Rolf has served the Adventist Church as church minister, departmental director and union president. For the past 20 years, he has been lecturer of systematic theology at Friedensau Adventist University in Germany. He is the director of the newly founded Institute of Adventist Studies at Friedensau. Rolf has edited and published several books in German, including an introduction to Adventism for the general public and a contemporary presentation of the fundamental beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists. In addition, he has published more than 200 articles in scholarly and popular journals.
Rolf is an internationally acclaimed preacher, speaker, author and lecturer; he has been teaching at several European Adventist seminaries. He is married to Regine and has two children.
