Fritz Guy

Fritz Guy (born 1930) is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and Research Professor of Philosophical Theology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He has worked as a college and university professor, an academic administrator, and a church pastor. In recent years Guy has espoused progressive Adventist theology, with lectures and articles exploring the temporality of God, the hope of universal salvation, the theology of creation, and the morality of same-sex relationships. In a 1985 survey of North American Adventist academics, Guy tied for fourth place among the Adventist authors who had most influenced them. In 1989, Gary Chartier noted a widespread view that Guy "was the leading Adventist systematic theologian of his generation."

Biography

Born on April 19, 1930, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Guy graduated from Cedar Lake Academy (now Great Lakes Adventist Academy) in Michigan in 1948. After initially planning to complete a physics major, Guy earned a BA in theology from La Sierra College (now La Sierra University) in 1952. Following work as a pastor and evangelist in southern California and marriage to Marcia Janice Specht in 1954, he enrolled at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, then in Washington, D.C., receiving an MA in theology in 1955. He served as assistant editor of The Youth's Instructor (later Insight) for three years.