Adventist studies

Adventist studies

"Adventist Studies" (as an abbreviation of "Seventh-day Adventist studies") is the academic study of Seventh-day Adventism.Arthur Patrick. "Adventist Studies: An Annotated Introduction for Higher Degree Students", May 2006. Prepared for Avondale College. ( [http://www.avondale.edu.au/courses/postgraduate/adventist_studies.pdf Online version] without footnotes)] This article describes the way Adventism has been conceived and taught.

Overview

Adventist Studies is a Christian subset of religious studies. Arthur Patrick has surveyed the discipline, describing it as a "maturing discipline"." [http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2005/11/twenty-five-years-after-glacier-view Twenty-Five Years After Glacier View] " by Arthur Patrick. "Adventist Today" 13:6]

Ellen White studies

An important segment is "Ellen White studies" which is concerned with study of the life and writings of Ellen G. White, a co-founder of the church. It is sometimes considered an academic discipline in its own right.

History

Two of the first critical Adventist historians were E. F. Albertsworth and C. L. Benson. [http://adventisthistorian.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/adventisms_earl.html] Detailed study of Adventism by doctoral candidates has been occurring since at least Everett N. Dick's 1930 dissertation. [Patrick, who quotes Gary Land's assessment favorably. Dick's manuscript "William Miller and the Advent Crisis" based on his doctoral thesis was not published until 1994.] Richard Schwarz' "Light Bearers to the Remnant" (1979) was the first history of the Adventist church written by a trained historian (now revised by Floyd Greenleaf as "Light Bearers: A History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church", 2000).

Andrews University was the first institution to offer a PhD in Adventist studies. [http://www.atoday.com/magazine/1993/11/andrews-university-offers-ph-d-adventist-studies by George Knight]

George Knight has supervised more doctoral students in Adventist studies than any other educator.

Australia

Avondale College Church in Australia has hosted annual presentations on Adventist studies, beginning in 2002.brief news article on p.3 of the [http://www.adventist.org.au/ws/spdlive.nsf/vwDisplay/9C88062CADE5F584CA2570610004D02D/$file/r32.pdf#page=3 August 20, 2005] issue of "Record"] Keynote speakers have been Fritz Guy in 2002, William Johnsson in 2003, Alden Thompson in 2004, and Kendra Haloviak in 2005. The annual [http://www.avondale.edu.au/announcements/murdoch_lecture.php Avondale College Murdoch Lecture] started in 1997. Avondale College was approved to offer PhDs in 2006. [cite journal
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See also

* Religious studies
* Seventh-day Adventist theology
* History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Progressive Adventism
* Historic Adventism

External links

* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive06-10/10-4mcadams.pdf Shifting Views of Inspiration: Ellen White Studies in the 1970s] " by Donald R. McAdams. "Spectrum" 10:4
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive06-10/10-4land.pdf From Apologetics to History: The Professionalization of Adventist Historians] " by Gary Land. "Spectrum" 10:4
* " [http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/white/patrick/egw-historians.htm Historians of Adventism: Their Agony, Ecstasy, and Potential] " by Arthur Patrick
* " [http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2002/11/reinventing-adventist-history-how-adventist-historians-transformed-adventist-herita Reinventing Adventist History: How Adventist Historians Transformed Adventist Heritage] " by Ciro Sepulveda. "Adventist Today"
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive11-15/13-2geraty.pdf Beyond Fundamentalism: A Short History of Adventist Old Testament Scholarship] " by Lawrence T. Geraty. "Spectrum" 13:2 (December 1982), p44–50

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