C. Mervyn Maxwell

C. Mervyn Maxwell, Ph.D., recently retired as professor of church history, Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Articles by C. Mervyn Maxwell

Church Music and the Bible

October 1963

4. The fact that the Bible says that much of our music should be directed to the people leads us naturally to the next Biblical principle—namely, that church music must be intelligible to the congregation. In…

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Church Music and the Bible

September 1963

I think I am musical. After all, almost everyone is. But I am not a musician. I am a minister, a pastor. It's my job to "preach the Word."

Now you who sit here in this chapel this morning will soon be scattered…

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Adventists and Politics: A Second Look

October 1976

THE PRESIDENTIAL election has once more made politics a topic of absorbing interest in the United States. It seems appropriate to take another look at Ellen White's statements about political activity among Seventh-day Adventists.

One…

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What Adventists Owe to Other Christians

September 1977

 

WHEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM arose in the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century it built solidly on the work of devoted Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, who had for centuries treasured the Bible and the great truths…

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Sabbath and Sunday Observance in the Early Church

January 1977

 

WHY DID early Christians start ob serving Sunday instead of the seventh-day Sabbath?

The most attractive answer is that they did it out of love for Jesus.

There is no doubt, for example, that Justin Martyr loved…

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1888 Re-examined: 1888-1988, the Story of a Century of Confrontation Between God and His People

February 1988

You may not agree with everything in it, but this book deals with an important topic. It is a crusading book. The original edition was almost too intense to read. But the new edition speaks lovingly of wayward brethren, hopefully of an erring…

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What is the 1888 Message?

February 1988

At the editor's friendly insistence, you and I have been assigned to talk about the "1888 Message," a topic that a lot of people are talking about this year. We're going to take for granted that we all use the term…

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The minister as ecclesiastic

December 1990

One of the clearest Bible memories of my childhood is the story of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

My family owned a volume of Scripture Prints, by the famous French engraver Doré, that further encouraged my youthful…

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