Desmond Ford

Desmond Ford
Personal details
Born	(1929-02-02)2 February 1929 Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Died	11 March 2019(2019-03-11) (aged 90) Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Spouse	Gwen Booth Gillian ("Gill") Wastell
Children	3
Occupation	Theologian
Education	Australasian Missionary College

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Desmond Ford (2 February 1929 – 11 March 2019) was an Australian theologian who studied evangelicalism.

Within the Seventh-day Adventist Church he was a controversial figure.^[1] He was dismissed from ministry in the Adventist church in 1980, following his critique of the church's investigative judgment teaching. He had since worked through the non-denominational evangelical ministry Good News Unlimited. Ford disagreed with some aspects of traditional Adventist end-time beliefs. However, he still defended a conservative view of scripture, the Seventh-day Sabbath, and a vegetarian lifestyle. He viewed the writings of Ellen G. White as useful devotionally, but not at the level of authority held by the Church.^[2]

Ford shared the sermon time at the Good News Unlimited congregation, which meets on Saturdays in the Brisbane suburb of Milton,^[3] and in periodic seminars on the eastern seaboard of Australia.