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Clifford R. Goldstein (born in 1955) is an American author and editor. He is a leading figure in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and espouses mainline Adventist beliefs. [1] [2]
Goldstein was born in Albany, New York in the United States. [3] He was raised a secular Jew, but became a Seventh-day Adventist [1] in 1980. He studied at Southern College and at Outpost Centers International. He received a B.A. from the University of Florida. [3]
He edited the journal Shabbat Shalom from 1984 till 1992. In the early 90s, Goldstein interpreted the end of the Cold War as a new sign of the end of the world, with the end of the Soviet Union as the end of "the most implacable barrier to Adventist eschatology." [4] He was a popular apocalyptic writer in the church at this time. [5]
In 1992 he received a M.A. in Ancient Northwest Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University. He was the editor of Liberty magazine from 1992 till 1997. [6] He became the editor of the Adventist Adult Sabbath School Lesson in 1999. He wrote the 2006 third quarter (July to September) edition, entitled The Gospel, 1844, and Judgment, [7] which upheld the traditional views of the 1844 investigative judgment and heavenly sanctuary teachings.
Goldstein and his wife Kimberly have two children. [3]
According to Goldstein he has never been a member of the Adventist Theological Society (ATS). [8] However he has been described as one of the two "effective spokesmen for the ATS perspective", and "the most visible and vocal exponent of the ATS agenda". [9]
He is known to espouse the belief that one cannot be an Adventist and an Evolutionist, a claim that some disagree with. [2]
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