The Shaping of Adventism
Author: Gilbert M. Valentine
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
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E.J. Waggoner
Author: Woodrow W. Whidden
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0828019827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Miller and the Rise of Adventism
Author: George R. Knight
Publisher: Pacific PressPub Assn
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780816324323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Dictionary of the Seventh-Day Adventists
Author: Gary Land
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1442241888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventh-day Adventism was born as a radical millenarian sect in nineteenth-century America. It has since spread across the world, achieving far more success in Latin America, Africa, and Asia than in its native land. In what seems a paradox, Adventist expectation of Christ’s imminent return has led the denomination to develop extensive educational, publishing, and health systems. Increasingly established within a variety of societies, Adventism over time has modified its views on many issues and accommodated itself to the “delay” of the Second Advent. In the process, it has become a multicultural religion that nonetheless reflects the dominant influence of its American origins. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Seventh-Day Adventists covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on key people, cinema, politics and government, sports, and critics of Ellen White. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Seventh-day Adventism.
W.W. Prescott
Author: Gilbert M. Valentine
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780828018920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHAT A PREACHER! His resonant voice could bext a thunderstorm. Known for both wisdom and overwork, he was president of three colleges at once, and founded or laid the groundwork for four (Union, Walla Walla, Newbold, and Avondale). He started out as a journalist. With a first-class education from Dartmouth, W.W. Prescott was soon editing a successful newspaper. The call to shepherd Battle Creek College involved a major pay cut. But over time he reshpaed the church's educational system and politics. Holding 11 different offices simultaneously, he initiated curriculum reforms (less classics, more Bible) that met with strong opposition. His organizational reforms triumphed in 1901. WHAT A PREACHER! His resonant voice could bext a thunderstorm. Known for both wisdom and overwork, he was president of three colleges at once, and founded or laid the groundwork for four (Union, Walla Walla, Newbold, and Avondale). He started out as a journalist. With a first-class education from Dartmouth, W.W. Prescott was soon editing a successful newspaper. The call to shepherd Battle Creek College involved a major pay cut. But over time he reshpaed the church's educational system and politics. Holding 11 different offices simultaneously, he initiated curriculum reforms (less classics, more Bible) that met with strong opposition. His organizational reforms triumphed in 1901. This deeply researched portrait of an energetic man of God will make you tired - and inspire you to better things. - A Word to the Reader. Foreword. Chapter I A New England Heritage. Chapter II College Days. Chapter III Inky Thumbs and Party Politics. Chapter IV College President. Chapter V Education Director and President-at-Large. Chapter VI More Than a President. Chapter VII Educational Philosopher and Reformer. Chapter VIII Reformers in Refuge Down Under. Chapter IX Frustrated Administrator. Chapter X General Conference Administrator. Chapter XI The Kellogg Crisis. Chapter XII Publishing Again. Chapter XIII Thrological Controversy and a Change of Job. Chapter XIV The Troubled Years. Chapter XV Protesting Against Error - Without and Within. Chapter XVI A New Harness. Chapter XVII Campus Troubleshooter. Chapter XVIII Writing Till the End. Index
The Great Controversy
Author: Ellen Gould White
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1773560131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA foundational text in the Seventh Day Adventist church, The Great Controversy is a vision White had of the great battle between Christ and Satan throughout the ages of the early and modern church. Although the book is not held with as high esteem in Protestant circles, it still is able to outline a way of impactful theological thinking.
Where Are We Headed?
Author: William G. Johnsson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781976324352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Antonio was a tipping point in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. History may come to regard the General Conference Session of 2015 as a moment comparable to the 1888 Minneapolis convocation, when dramatically differing views of the church came face to face. In "Where Are We Headed?" William Johnsson looks at the life of the church after the summer of 2015 with two questions in mind: What issues are shaping the Adventist church? How shall we respond? Johnsson served as the editor of the Adventist Review from 1982 to 2006. In this book he moves easily and effectively into the role of pastor and teacher that he knows so well-and that Adventists have long appreciated.
James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists
Author: R. Clifford Jones
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009-09-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1604731508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, R. Clifford Jones tells the story of this important black religious figure and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey was a Baptist minister who joined the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church shortly after arriving in New York City from Jamaica at the turn of the twentieth century. A leader of uncommon competency and charisma, Humphrey functioned as an SDA minister in Harlem during the time the community became the black capital of the United States. Though he led his congregation to a position of prominence within the SDA denomination, Humphrey came to believe the black experience in Adventism was one of disenfranchisement. When he refused to alter his plans for a utopian community for blacks in the face of dissent from SDA church leaders, Humphrey's ministerial credentials were revoked and his congregation was dissolved. Subsequently, Humphrey established an independent black religious organization, the United Sabbath-Day Adventists. This book rescues the Sabbath-Day Adventists from obscurity. Humphrey's break with the Seventh-day Adventists provides clues to the state of black-white relationships in the denomination at the time. It set the stage for the creation of the separate administrative structure for blacks established by the SDA church in 1945. This history of a minister and his church demonstrates the struggles of small, independent, black congregations in the urban community during the twentieth century.
Adventism and the American Republic
Author: Douglas Morgan
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781572331112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Adventism and the American Republic tells how their convictions led Adventist adherents to become champions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state - all in the interest of delaying the fulfillment of a prophecy that foresees the abolition of most freedoms. Through publication of Liberty magazine, lobbying of legislatures, and pressing court cases, Adventists have been libertarian activists for more than a century, and in recent times this stance has translated into strong resistance to the political agendas of Christian conservatives." "Drawing on Adventist writings that have never been incorporated into a scholarly study, Morgan shows how the movement has struggled successfully to maintain its identifying beliefs - with some modifications - and how their sectarian exclusiveness and support of liberty has led to some tensions and inconsistencies."--BOOK JACKET.
The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism
Author: George R. Knight
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0828023859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded upon an apocalyptic message that needed to be preached to the entire worldimmediately and at any cost. But does the church today preach that same message with the same urgency? Has the Adventist Church become irrelevant because it has sought to be more relevant to the world? Knight challenges us to go back to our roots, to examine the prophecies that fueled the early Seventh-day Adventists' determination to evangelize the world.
