The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism

The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism
Author: George R. Knight
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0828023859

The Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded upon an apocalyptic message that needed to be preached to the entire worldimmediately and at any cost. But does the church today preach that same message with the same urgency? Has the Adventist Church become irrelevant because it has sought to be more relevant to the world? Knight challenges us to go back to our roots, to examine the prophecies that fueled the early Seventh-day Adventists' determination to evangelize the world.

An Adventist Apocalypse

An Adventist Apocalypse
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1994-06
Genre: End of the world
ISBN: 9780996189675

A compilation of extracts from letters and manuscripts from the writings of Ellen G. White. These statements deal with last-day events, especially as they pertain to God's last-day people.

American Apocalypse

American Apocalypse
Author: Dwight K. Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780816367702

"A biblical analysis of today's America in the stream of prophetic history"--

Anarchy and Apocalypse

Anarchy and Apocalypse
Author: Ronald E. Osborn
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621890759

In this wide-ranging collection of essays Ronald E. Osborn explores the politically subversive and nonviolent anarchist dimensions of Christian discipleship in response to dilemmas of power, suffering, and war. Essays engage texts and thinkers from Homer's Iliad, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament to portraits of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Noam Chomsky, and Elie Wiesel. This book also analyzes the Allied bombing of civilians in World War II, the peculiar contribution of the Seventh-day Adventist apocalyptic imagination to Christian social ethics, and the role of deceptive language in the Vietnam War. From these and other diverse angles, Osborn builds the case for a more prophetic witness in the face of the violence of the "principalities and powers" in the modern world. This book will serve as an indispensible primer in the political theology of the Adventist tradition, as well as a significant contribution to radical Christian thought in biblical, historical, and literary perspectives.

Revelation

Revelation
Author:
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0857861018

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

The Great Controversy

The Great Controversy
Author: Ellen Gould White
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1773560131

A foundational text in the Seventh Day Adventist church, The Great Controversy is a vision White had of the great battle between Christ and Satan throughout the ages of the early and modern church. Although the book is not held with as high esteem in Protestant circles, it still is able to outline a way of impactful theological thinking.

Child of the Apocalypse

Child of the Apocalypse
Author: Donald Edward Casebolt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2021-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666719617

Ellen White’s two thousand visions, revered by her twenty million disciples, were doctrinally inspired by William Miller, who fathered the largest millennial movement in US history. He and Samuel Snow, during the movement’s climax, the “Midnight Cry,” predicted Christ’s Second Coming for exactly October 22, 1844, on the basis of fifteen proof-texts. Ellen was twelve, suffering from severe brain trauma and the conviction that she was hell-bound, when Miller converted her. By sixteen she became convicted that she was having divine dreams and visions confirming Miller’s prophetic role and message. When Miller’s predictions failed and he repudiated his own predictions, Ellen announced that God had commanded her to endorse Miller’s failed “Midnight Cry” as divinely inspired, and her authority replaced Miller’s in the “shut-door” faction of ex-Millerites who evolved into the Seventh-day Adventist church. Miller claimed that his dogmas were the result of merely allowing the Bible to interpret itself and that his method was literal commonsense. White seconded this claim and said God’s angels routinely guided Miller’s interpretations. However, not only were his interpretations falsified, but examination reveals them to be farfetched allegorical treatments of parables. Nonetheless, White’s visions and SDA theology still retain many of Miller’s falsified predictions.

Secrets of Revelation

Secrets of Revelation
Author: Jacques Doukhan
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780828016452

Jacques B. Doukhan, an Adventist scholar of Jewish heritage, mines the Old Testament to uncover new meaning in the battle of Armageddon and the millennium. He ties the symbolism of the book to the sanctuary service of ancient Israel, showing how the seven sections of the book correspond to the seven feasts of Judaism. He argues that the prophecies of Revelation foretell the eventual discrediting of secularism (Egypt), the resurgence of conservative religion (Babylon), and a final coalition of the two movements in the climactic events before the second coming of Christ to defeat sin and save His people.

Apocalypse and Millennium

Apocalypse and Millennium
Author: Kenneth G. C. Newport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521773348

"Apocalypse and Millennium argues that far from being a random sequence of bizarre statements, millennial schemes (including the setting of dates for the second coming of Christ) are more often characterised by highly complex and internally consistent interpretations of scripture. Such interpretations do not always result in positive outcomes. As an example, the work of David Koresh is examined at length. Koresh, styled by some the 'Wacko from Waco', clearly had views which some would find odd. However, his interpretation of scripture did not lack system or context, and to see him in that light is to begin to understand why his message had appeal, particularly to those of the Seventh-day Adventist tradition. The final three chapters in this book outline Koresh's thinking on end-time events and trace the line of his interpretative tradition from nineteenth-century Millerism through Seventh-day Adventism and Davidianism (which began in 1929)."--BOOK JACKET.