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Ellen G. White’s Role in Biblical Interpretation: A Survey of Early Seventh-day Adventist Perceptions
Introduction The acceptance of Ellen G. White’s modern-day prophetic gift naturally raises questions about the relationship between her writings and the biblical writings. If the same divine source generated both sets of writings, one may legitimately ask for the authority and finality of Ellen W...
The Reformation and the Remnant: The Reformers Speak to Today’s Church
The Reformation and the Remnant: The Reformers Speak to Today’s Church (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2016), 142 pp. Paperback, US$15.99 On the eve of five centuries since Martin Luther circulated his 95 Theses in Wittenberg comes this thoughtful, and at times even provocative, book on the meaning ...
Glúder Quispe, Merlin D. Burt, and Alberto R. Timm. Legado Adventista: Un panorama histórico y teológico del adventismo
Glúder Quispe, Merlin D. Burt, and Alberto R. Timm. Legado Adventista: Un panorama histórico y teológico del adventismo [Adventist Legacy: A historical and Theological Overview of Adventism]. Lima, Peru: Universidad Peruana Unión, Centro de Investigación White, 2013, 415 pp. US$20.00. This book—w...
Seventh-day Adventists
Introductory Historical Sketch Seventh-day Adventists trace the formative stages of their movement to an enthusiastic revival of biblical prophetic studies which occurred in the first half of the 19th century, largely among Protestants but with limited Catholic participation. The collapse of the ...
The Prophet and the Presidents: Ellen White’s Influence on the Leadership of the Early Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Prophet and the Presidents is a fun and compelling read of one of the most controversial periods in denominational history. The narrative picks up in 1888 and concludes in 1913 and follows the successive presidencies of world church presidents O. A. Olsen (1888-1897), G. A. Irwin (1897-1901)...
William Miller and the Rise of Adventism
This volume is a reprint of Millennial Fever (1993) with some updates in the last chapter. George Knight, formerly professor of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, is one of Adventism’s leading historians and a most prolific author. The fiftee...
Woodrow W. Whidden II, E. J. Waggoner: From the Physician of Good News to Agent of Division
This self-styled “theological biography” on the life of Ellet Joseph Waggoner is the fifth volume in the Adventist Pioneer Series edited by George R. Knight. The author, Woodrow Whidden, is a well-known systematic theologian who taught for 18 years at Andrews University and currently teaches at t...
Seventh-day Adventists and the Ecumenical Movement
The General Conference Executive Committee has never voted an official statement regarding the Seventh-day Adventist relationship to the ecumenical movement as such. A book has been written dealing at length with the subject and a number of articles have appeared over the years in Adventist publ...
Ellen G. White’s Ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventists believe that God bestows upon all members of his church in every age spiritual gifts which are to be employed in ministry for the common good of the church and of humanity. These gifts are apportioned by the Holy Spirit to each believer and provide abilities and ministries ...
Seventh-day Adventist Polity: Its Historical Development
Introduction When the 20 delegates from six conferences assembled in Battle Creek, Michigan, for the first General Conference Session of Seventh-day Adventists on May 20, 1863, they represented 3,500 members. Virtually all of them lived in the northeastern or midwestern United States. Thirty-eig...
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George Wayne Reid, a Seventh-day Adventist scholar and theologian, passed to his rest on May 2, 2026, in Keene, Texas, United States. He was ninety-five. An experienced researcher and author on theological topics, Reid is best known within Adventist circles as a former associate editor of Advent...
Goldstein, Clifford. God, Gödel, and Grace.
If the maxim is true that good things come in small packages, then it will be reinforced by this latest in Clifford Goldstein’s series of publications. Multiplied thousands have appreciated Goldstein’s writings, and here he leads us into what will be new territory, even uncharted waters for some....
Priesthood of Believers
In spite of its affirmation of the priesthood of all believers, there is perhaps no function which Protestantism has so much neglected. Not only have Protestant laymen not assumed the priestly role, but until recently even the clergy have shunned it. A major task for Protestant churches today, no...