{"id":144153,"date":"2022-07-11T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=144153"},"modified":"2022-07-11T04:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:47:21","slug":"desmond-ford-reformist-theologian-gospel-revivalist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=144153","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Ford: Reformist Theologian, Gospel Revivalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beautiful biography of my father by Milton Hook is now available on Kindle<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I wrote in 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I learned from my dad how to live in community, how to live on the edge of community, and how to live without community.<\/p>\n

Everyone should be so privileged to have their life written up by somebody who loved them.<\/p>\n

Roy Branson wrote in the Dec. 1994 issue of Spectrum magazine that my dad had "more than any other one person, made Adventists care passionately about theology."<\/p>\n

Many marked my dad’s departure from the Adventist church in 1980 as the date "the very Spirit had departed from their church." (Milton Hook)<\/p>\n

The key question, writes Hook, is: "How could one man exert so much theological momentum in the culture of Seventh-Day Adventism, a group so protective of its traditions and so resistant to change?"<\/p>\n

Hook includes a couple of pages from my dad’s 1942 diary. Not surprisingly, there’s zero emotional introspection. Instead there are comments such as "Jap cruiser sunk" and "Saw beach girl contest."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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