Ideology
Southern is known for its religious and social conservatism, and is the most conservative of denominationally owned Adventist colleges in North America. Southern has attempted to position itself as the "ultra-orthodox defender of fundamentalist Adventism." In 2001, Adventist noted theologian and scholar Raymond Cottrell, a "progressive Adventist", wrote that Southern operated "an agency of Southern Bible belt obscurantism." He went on to say that Southern was, to an appreciable extent, "dependent on the largesse of committed ultra-fundamentalists, who insist that the college operate on ultra-fundamentalist principles."
In explaining why he placed his collection of artifacts and his personal library at Southern Adventist University, archaeologist William Dever said, "The major support for archaeology work in Israel and Jordan comes from conservative and evangelical circles where the Bible is still taken seriously and no one is more serious and committed about archaeological study in the Middle East than Adventists."
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