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Category Archives: Adventist
The Prophet as Architect: An Intellectual Biography of Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White (1827-1915) does not fit standard categories of intellectual life. She wrote no treatises in the manner of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). She built no systematic theology in the German tradition. She had three years of formal schooling. Yet … Continue reading
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The Translator: Desmond Ford and the Limits of Adventist Reform
Desmond Ford (1929-2019) is a regional theologian whose career marks the limits of an apocalyptic sect’s encounter with modern biblical scholarship. He has currency within parts of Seventh-day Adventism. He has none outside it. Those two sentences shape everything else … Continue reading
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The Hague Kid
The Nostradamus Kid (1992) by Bob Ellis follows Ken, a boy raised in Seventh-day Adventist Australia who expects the world to end at any moment. The soon coming of Christ shapes every decision. Ken falls in love, loses his faith, … Continue reading
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What Can Seventh-day Adventist Faith Survive?
The Seventh-day Adventist church (12th largest Protestant body) in which I was raised can survive the claim that specific doctrines are wrong. It can survive revision of prophetic timelines, reinterpretation of Ellen White, renegotiation of dietary rules. It cannot survive … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Seventh-day Adventist Leaders
Stephen Turner‘s convenient beliefs run at full speed inside the General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, the world division offices, the annual council chambers, and the late-night strategy calls with union and conference presidents. The U.S.-Israeli campaign is in … Continue reading
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The Countdown and the Pipeline: Adventism, Sydney Anglicanism, and the Architecture of Immortality
Two religious communities occupy the same city and share many of the same anxieties. Both take the Bible seriously. Both maintain dense social networks that structure daily life. Both position themselves against the drift of secular Australia. Yet they manage … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for The Nostradamus Kid
Young believers in the world of The Nostradamus Kid (1992) do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to the prophecies, loyalty to the Remnant Church, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Seventh-day Adventist Authority
Seventh-day Adventists do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as faithfulness to Scripture, loyalty to prophetic guidance, or responsibility for the church’s global mission. This is the … Continue reading
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Decoding Bible Scholar Roy Gane
My dad and Roy’s dad were sometimes friends and sometimes theological enemies and sometimes both at the same time. I’m not sure I’ve ever known anyone more disciplined than Roy Gane. He got his PhD in Bible under R. Jacob … Continue reading
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Decoding Monterey Bay Academy (Seventh Day Adventist school)
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, Alliance Theory is best understood as a protective sorting and reproduction institution for a minority moral alliance operating inside a hostile or indifferent wider culture. Its primary function is not academics. It is alliance management … Continue reading
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