title: Charles Scriven
text: # Charles Scriven
  
  Charles Scriven (born 1945, Prineville, Oregon) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian who served as President of Kettering College from 2000 through 2013. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation and chair of the board of Adventist Forums, publisher of Spectrum magazine.
  
  ## Career
  
  After attending Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington, Scriven obtained a master's degree in divinity at Andrews University in 1968. In 1984 he obtained a Ph.D. in systematic theology and Christian social ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He served for six years as minister in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1992 he was appointed president of Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland. He has been an editor of Insight, a Seventh-day Adventist magazine for young people.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * The Demons Have Had It: A Theological ABC (1976)
  * The Transformation of Culture: Christian social ethics after H. Richard Niebuhr (1988)
  * The Promise of Peace: Dare to Experience the Advent Hope (2009)
  