Adventist Heritage

This dissertation, presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a volume on Adventist church history. While it covers Adventist history from the Millerites to the present, it focuses specifically on Seventh-day Adventist piety and the va...

This biography of William Warren Prescott (1855– 1944) is a condensed version of G. M. Valentine’s massive 1982 Ph.D. dissertation (660 pages) at Andrews University. In the interest of space many references have been dropped and those retained have been abbreviated. Nevertheless, the book ably re...

In some areas of the world field the Seventh-day Adventist Church is challenged by the so-called Reform Movement. Some pastors and church members may not yet have encountered that movement and may know little about it. Some time ago BRI published the book The Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movemen...

I. Origin In many parts of the world field today Adventists are confronted by an organization calling itself the Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement. Sometimes this group is designated as the “German Reform Movement” because it originated in Germany. Frequently, this organization is quite hosti...

Introduction While the Seventh-day Adventist Church today espouses the doctrine of the Trinity, this has not always been so. The evidence from a study of Adventist history indicates that from the earliest years of our church to the 1890s a whole stream of writers took an Arian or semi-Arian posit...

Part 1: Beyond Disappointment The historical and theological roots of the Seventh-day Adventist Church lie in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and the 1840s. William Miller was a Baptist farmer in Low Hampton, New York. Through an intensive study of the books of Daniel and Revelation, commenci...

Approved by BRICOM, May 5, 1983 Approved by BRIAD, May 12, 1983 Foreword During the past decade there has developed, particularly among charismatic Christian bodies in various places, a movement that has come to be known as “deliverance ministry” in which evil spirits—believed to control human be...

REVIEW: Attorney Ramik, how much did you know about Seventh-day Adventists in general, and Ellen White in particular, before you were asked to research the legal questions involved in Mrs. White’s use of literary sources? Ramik: Actually, my knowledge was quite limited. Our firm had done some wo...

REVIEW: Attorney Johns, how and under what circumstances did the Legal Services of the General Conference come to be involved in retaining the firm of Diller, Ramik & Wight, Ltd., to research questions pertaining to Ellen White and her use of literary sources? Johns: Well, last October an Advent...

For decades friends and critics alike have discussed Ellen White's use of literary sources in her writings. Critics have charged that her “borrowing” amounted to plagiarism and copyright infringement. Friends have said No, her “borrowing” should be classified as “fair use.” So intense was the deb...