Church History

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...

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 ...

Introduction Seventh-day Adventists believe that they have been called to proclaim the everlasting gospel to every nation, tribe, language, and people, in the context of the messages of the three angels in Revelation 14:6-12. These messages are God’s final appeal to the human race before the Seco...

Western societies are often quite individualistic, missing the importance of a corporate entity. Yet groups of people are very important and can function in ways individuals cannot. Here is an illustration: Think about matches. An individual match can easily be broken. However, if ten or twenty m...

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...

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...

Introduction The practice of hermeneutics has been part and parcel of human history. Hermeneutics as a human activity arises from the need to interpret a thought or text of another. Although throughout history the word hermeneutics has been defined in numerous ways, there is inherent in the Greek...

This is the second volume of the Devotional Commentary Series and it is also written by George Knight. The first volume was on Hebrews. This new work surpasses the other in length by almost fifty pages. Exploring Mark is a concise treatment of Mark’s Gospel and provides good background informat...

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...