15 Facts About Edward Heppenstall

Edward E Heppenstall was a leading Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Edward Heppenstall was born in 1901 at Rotherham, Yorkshire, England to Arthur and Georgina Edward Heppenstall.

Edward Heppenstall earned a BA degree at Emmanuel Missionary College, majoring in English literature and doing work in science and theology.

Edward Heppenstall pastored several churches, and served as youth director for the Michigan Conference.

Edward Heppenstall served as a professor of theology at La Sierra College, now La Sierra University, from 1940 to 1955.

Edward Heppenstall taught and was the chairman of the systematic theology department at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.

Edward Heppenstall was professor of theology at Loma Linda University.

Edward Heppenstall was responsible for a fuller understanding of the church's "investigative judgment" teaching.

Edward Heppenstall emphasized, as did Questions on Doctrine, the atonement on the cross with a continuing ministry in heaven in the antitypical Day of Atonement.

Edward Heppenstall's theology was seen by some as more cross-centered, Christ-centered, evangelical form of theology which in some ways differed from the then popular SDA understanding of salvation.

Edward Heppenstall said that salvation by grace means being shaken loose from what he considered to be the folly of implanting our ego at the center of the plan of salvation with the belief that we must arrive at sinless perfection to be sure of salvation.

Edward Heppenstall argued from the Bible that it is essentially spiritual maturity and walking with God in love.

Edward Heppenstall influenced a generation of preachers and religion teachers through his college and seminary lectures.

Edward Heppenstall recognized the talents of Desmond Ford in the mid-1950s.

Edward Heppenstall said God's judgment will be in favor of believers.