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The 150 year history of the Seventh-day Adventist church is both complex and controversial. Combining an objective historical analysis and an anthology of primary sources, this collection adds a clear and complete history of the Adventist church to your library. With this collection, you’ll be well equipped to respond to skeptics and answer questions of your own. Gary Land’s volume fleshes out the church’s founding and provides insight into the denomination’s distinguishing characteristics, while George R. Knight’s work opens a window into the Church’s vigorous historical work in international missions.
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Written by Adventist scholars who felt a need to better establish and understand their denominational identity and the foundation of their theological beliefs, this book offers a comprehensive, nonapologetic history of the denomination—accurate in scholarship, comprehensive in scope, and objective in tone. It synthesizes present knowledge of the history of the Adventist church in America, and lays the basis for further investigation.
Gary Land is professor of history at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
This volume was published at the pivot point of Adventist mission development. By 1886 the young church had been in the foreign mission business for a dozen years, yet it had only four missions (three in Europe and one in Australia/New Zealand), and those four were just moving beyond infancy stage.
By late 1886 the Adventists were becoming ever more committed to foreign missions. Historical Sketches contains the first book-length document on missions, and represents a valuable historical record of the denomination’s early work. It also contains revealing reports from a variety of authors, including Ellen G. White, on the strategies developed to further those missions and a call for expanded mission work in the future. Historical Sketches is both a summary of Adventism’s missiological past and a pointer and appeal to the future.