George W. Reid

Does history really confirm any kind of statement about purpose in human experience?

Adventists and many other conservative Christians insist that it does. On this premise, Adventists interpret prophecy in the historicist mode, a…

How did the early Adventists view the commission to preach the Christian gospel to all the world? The answer depends upon the particular time period, but the historical prologue to Adventism almost guaranteed that it would become an active…

Tim Crosby points up well the foolishness of interpreting sola scriptura to exclude any other source of valid authority. Certainly the Bible was not intended to serve such a purpose. But in chastising the narrowness of modern usage,…

The Daniel and Revelation Committee broke new ground when it met at the Seminar Marienhoehe in Darmstadt, Germany, for its March 1987 session. Previously the committee always has met in North America, with attendance limited to members and…

The seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke's contention that in every person resides a self-directed autonomy not to be abridged except by permission of the possessor appears to have won the day. First visible politically in revolutions…

An emergency vehicle arrives at the scene of a car crash. Paramedics extract a body from the mass of twisted steel and shattered glass. The family soon will learn that they have lost a precious youth.

Every day such tragedies happen…

Seldom do reference notes in a book attract as much attention as the text itself. Receiving the Word fits that unique exception. The fact that its author is an articulate scholar from West Africa, in the final stages of a doctoral…