TheoRhēma (Jul 2018)
Teologia urmașilor lui Milian Lauritz Andreasen
Abstract
The current article has investigated the impact of M. L. Andreasen’s thought with regard to the atonement, the delay of the parousia, the human nature of Christ on a number of influential theological successors of the aforementioned. These have taken Andreasen’s Christological understanding to a new level, which is a clearly perfectionist view of religion. This, in turn, has exerted a very powerful influence on the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of moral character formation in the first half of the 20th century and beyond. In this view, victory over personal character defects, as well as the sinful propensities residing in the fallen human nature of Adam’s descendants can be and has to be achieved in terms of a sinless perfection akin to Christ’s sinless moral performance. Such a moral performance has to be imitated on the part of the last generation of believers, the 144, 000, which is an indispensable condition of Christ’s second coming, according to the theology of Andreasen’s followers.
