Understanding the Bible Commentary a Seventh Day Adventist Resource?
When doing some research on a passage I find that this commentary is listed in the commentaries section of my guide as 'Seventh Day Adventist'. Is this correct?
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Which volume? Logos normally tags with the denomination of the author.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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The authors of this commentary series are from various denominations. I got Logos to list them all by doing a PG containing only that series. It turns out that Mary J. Evans is apparently a Seventh Day Adventist (according to the tagging scheme developed over years of work here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/54491.aspx). I don't know on what basis the people who worked on that spreadsheet (Andrew Baguley and others) determined that she is SDA. I've googled her name along with "Seventh Day Adventist" and she is cited in various Adventist journals and things, but they cite all kinds of sources, not just their own people, so I'm not sure that would be sufficient proof.
Anyway, that's the explanation for why this commentary shows up in the SDA section, though I can't tell you whether that is a correct categorization or not. If she is SDA, there's nothing wrong with that, though. SDA folks can be excellent scholars. And Lynden Williams is an MVP in the Logos forums.
These days it is really hard to peg someone as to what denomination they are affiliated with. A person might attend the local Lutheran church just because it's the closest to where they live. And then they might move and attend a United Methodist church. Or they might have gone to a Baptist university but become more Pentecostal as an adult. Denominational leanings are fuzzy. Many people are multi-denominational at heart.
So I wouldn't put a whole lot of importance on what denomination the author of one volume of a commentary set is tagged as. Mary J. Evans co-edited the The IVP Women's Bible Commentary with Catherine Clark Kroeger, who was a Presbyterian, according to Wikipedia.
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Thanks everyone for your input
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Rosie Perera said:
These days it is really hard to peg someone as to what denomination they are affiliated with... So I wouldn't put a whole lot of importance on what denomination the author of one volume of a commentary set is tagged as. Mary J. Evans co-edited the The IVP Women's Bible Commentary with Catherine Clark Kroeger, who was a Presbyterian, according to Wikipedia.
Thanks and yes, I would not be too concerned but in the case of SDA they are a bit of an outlier and there is some debate as to how we categorise them. Some would go as far as to classify them as a cult and whilst I wouldn't go quite that far I have some genuine concerns about their doctrines.
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Sean McIntyre said:
Thanks and yes, I would not be too concerned but in the case of SDA they are a bit of an outlier and there is some debate as to how we categorise them. Some would go as far as to classify them as a cult and whilst I wouldn't go quite that far I have some genuine concerns about their doctrines.
Yes, but in the forums, we make no judgements of denominations - we simply accept anyone's self-definition of being Christian. As a user, it is your job to discern whether ANY author is reliable or unreliable on any topic.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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