Raymond Forrest Cottrell was an Adventist theologian, missionary, teacher, writer and editor.
16 Facts About Raymond Cottrell
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Raymond Cottrell was an associate editor of both the Adventist Review and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary.
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Raymond Cottrell, is seen by some as a "progressive Adventist", as he disagreed with certain traditional positions of the church, including the investigative judgment, and served in an editorial role for the independently owned and operated magazine Adventist Today.
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Raymond Cottrell was a consulting editor to Spectrum magazine, another independent Adventist paper, both which leaned to progressive Adventist viewpoints.
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Raymond Cottrell was the first Adventist to become a member of a scholarly theological society, and was instrumental in the founding of the Biblical Research Institute.
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Raymond Cottrell was born on April 21,1911, in Los Angeles, into a family which already had a long history within the Adventist church.
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Raymond Cottrell's great-grandfather Roswell F Cottrell was a Seventh Day Baptist who first listened to William Miller before 1844 and the Great Disappointment, yet did not become a follower.
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From 1930 to 1934 Raymond Cottrell worked as a church pastor in the Pacific Union Conference.
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Raymond Cottrell taught biblical exegesis at Pacific Union College for 10 or 11 years, while Elizabeth worked in the business office for several years.
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Raymond Cottrell wrote numerous articles for the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary and Encyclopedia on topics in Bible and theology.
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Raymond Cottrell worked for another 7 years as a book editor.
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Raymond Cottrell served as a member of the Biblical Research Committee.
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Raymond Cottrell worked for the General Conference and for the Southeastern California Conference on various commissions and projects.
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Raymond Cottrell died the following year on January 12,2003, in Calimesa.
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Raymond Cottrell described the theological climate of the church as open, favourable and honest during the 1950s when the Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia was published.
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Raymond Cottrell was a prolific author, although he chose not to publish many of his articles:.