George R. Knight

Waggoner, Jones, and the Whites stood in harmony with each other on the proper way to resolve theological issues. All held that the Bible is the only determiner of Christian belief. As a result, they were united against the attempts of the…

Hiroshima! Ground zero! I was standing at the spot above which the world’s first atomic bomb detonated. Frightful in its consequences. Shattering in its implications. The world was never the same.

• Ground zero is where the action…

Church organization was one of the hardest fought battles in Adventism’s early decades. Extending nearly 20 years, the struggle not only eventuated in aspects of church order not suggested in Scripture but provided a key hermeneutical principle…

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s keynote address at the Atlantic Union Conference Pastor/Teacher Convention held in Providence, Rhode Island, in August 2009. The oral style has been retained.

One of…

Personality conflict was a central element in the struggle that took place at the 1888 General Conference meetings. The champions of "old guard" orthodoxy were George I. Butler (1834-1918), president of the General…

What do Marxism and Adventism have in common?

In the words of Paul, I might add, "Much in every way." While I do not intend to examine the "every way" similarities, we will take a look at two significant…

Churches in their second century face problems their founders never had to deal with. Two of those problems are institutionalism and secularization. Churches, like people and other organizations, pass from infancy through adolescence into…

There is almost a craze for orthodoxy. A resolution was introduced into the college meeting that no new doctrine be taught there till it had been adopted by the General Conference. Mother and I killed it dead, after a hard fight." ¹…

The year 1994 marks the 150th anniversary of the October 22 disappointment of Millerite Adventism. Up to that date the Millerites had been certain that Christ would return in 1844. But suddenly their hopes were shattered;…

Most of the founders of Seventh-day Adventism would not be able to join the church today if they had to subscribe to the denomination's Fundamental Beliefs. ¹

More specifically, most would not be able to agree to belief…

What is Adventism? What does it mean theologically to be an Adventist? The most intelligible framework for understanding the historical development of Seventh-day Adventist theology is to see it as a search for identity…

Surprising as it may seem, we sometimes prove more than we set out to if we extend our methodology to its logical conclusions.

The case of jewelry

For example, some have argued that one of the best…

"Surely I come quickly" (Rev. 22:20).

The early church expected to see its Lord returning in a relatively short time. Yet Jesus has not come after nearly 2,000 years.

What…

Many had hoped that Receiving the Word would responsibly and adequately address some of the major issues presently facing the Adventist Church.

The volume's strongest point is that it raises significant issues regarding inspiration,…

If Protestantism ever dies with a dagger in its back, the dagger will be the Protestant sermon." In that brief quip Donald Miller puts the ringer on a challenge to both Protestantism in general and to Adventism in…

The year 1912 was an excellent time for questions to arise over the nature of inspiration. After all, the revised edition of The Great Controversy had recently been released, and some were questioning how it was that an inspired document…

It had had been a bad week. Three church members had gotten on my case, the board meeting had been a struggle from beginning to end, there had been a teenage suicide, and my sermon had flopped.

Maybe I was in the wrong business.…

Seventh-day Adventism at the edge of the twenty-first century is somewhere t never expected to be—on earth. Beyond that, it has expanded beyond the wildest dreams of its founders and continues to expand.

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Eschatology sells! Translated into more than fifty languages, Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth (1970) sold over 35,000,000 copies.

Part of Lindsey's appeal was his emphasis on the nearness of…

Seventh-day Adventists need an integrated theology! Don't get me wrong. Adventism's 27 fundamental beliefs are well defined and adequate in what they attempt to do as individual statements. It is not the 27 that I…

To what extent should Seventh-day Adventists cooperate with other Christian denominations? Should Adventist ministers be active in community ministerial associations? On what basis? After all, hasn't the denomination…

The world is full of laws, not only in I the physical realm but also in the I social. I have been collecting these I enlightening laws for some time. Take Schmidt's Law, for example: "If you mess with a thing long…