Church History

This article investigates the historical development of homosexuality. It begins with the Ancient Near East, continues with Israel and Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, Christianity and Gnosticism, and finishes with Europe between the Medieval Ages and our time. The Ancient Near East Egypt So far n...

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 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)...

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...

At the dawn of the sixteenth century, Christians were challenged to faithfully observe the many holy days and festivals that had been instituted by the dominant church during the Middle Ages. Faithful church attendance on these days was considered a means to obtain grace and was both required an...

The symposium on Arminianism and Adventism, held October 14-16, 2010 at Andrews University, attempted to analyze Adventist theology within a larger theological continuum, helping to explore the connections between Adventism and other religious traditions. The plenary papers addressed three major ...

Megachurches have become big business according to Forbes magazine: raking in over $8.5 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Defined as churches with over 2,000 attendees a week, the average megachurch income was $6.7 million in 2007. The Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, the largest megachurch i...

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...

The last decade has seen increased anti-Trinitarian activity within the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Though significant, anti-Trinitarianism has remained at the margins of the movement. Four reasons for this activity should be mentioned. (1) There is the availability of information through the i...

Islam as a religion is very much discussed in the Adventist Church today. One scholar even suggested to reinterpret the little horn of Daniel 7 and include modern Islam. This is not the approach taken by Hans and Daniel Heinz. Father and son, a theologian (Th.D.) and a church historian (Ph.D.), h...