When Ellen White died in 1915, what to do with her writings became an enormously complicated problem for the church. In 1937 the literary collection was eventually relocated to Washington, DC—but the road was long and winding, and at times the going was quite rocky. In this book Gil Valentine... [Show more]
Writing simply and clearly, without using theological jargon, Reinder Bruinsma analyzes the issue of Last Generation Theology, which asserts that the last generation before the Second Coming must have total victory over all sin. This book is an opportunity for us to learn about the dangers of this... [Show more]
During the late 1960s and 1970s, enormous pressures of social, cultural, and theological change confronted church leaders. Many of these new ideas seemed like “worldliness,” posing a threat to the trusted ways of the past. This book looks at the arrival of this new... [Show more]
Douglas Morgan tells the story of a movement of Black Adventist lay members who, with women at the forefront, brought the denomination to a racial reckoning in the 1940s. Their story, told in the context of the church’s racial history in America as it unfolded during the first half of the 20th... [Show more]
The insights in this volume about the divine gift of the seventh-day Sabbath offer hope and remedy for the needs of our world. Sabbath as a shared day of rest embraces care for the earth, rest for the land, reprieve for the destitute, and a stop to ruthless acquisition. In a time of unparalleled... [Show more]
The world is broken. Members of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies decided to address this issue from their respective disciplines. In November 2022, they met to share their papers; to invite a robust conversation about the obviously malfunctioning world, ancient and contemporary; to see... [Show more]
This book demonstrates that no longer must women refrain from scholarship or from teaching in areas like New Testament, Old Testament, systematic theology, ethics, and praxis. Women scholars who had presented papers for the Adventist Society for Religious Studies prepared their papers for... [Show more]
Known for their provocative approach, George Knight's books have a wide readership around the world. Adventist Authority Wars, Ordination, and the Roman Catholic Temptation, following his usual style, raises denominational issues that many would like to keep buried. He not only raises the issues... [Show more]
San Antonio was a tipping point in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. History may come to regard the General Conference Session of 2015 as a moment comparable to the 1888 Minneapolis convocation, when dramatically differing views of the church came face to face. In Where Are We... [Show more]
