- Seeking a Sanctuary
"Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream" [cite book
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author = Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart
title = Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream
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isbn = 978-0-253-21868-1] is a book about theSeventh-day Adventist Church coauthored byMalcolm Bull ( [http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/People/staff_detail.php?id=3 staff profile] ) and Keith Lockhart. It has been described as the best book about the church, covering major areas such as Adventist theology and culture.Fact|date=April 2008Overview
The book was first published in 1989; a second edition was released in 2006. Both its authors have Adventist backgrounds. According to Lockhart, the central theme "is that Adventism represents a deviant but successful response to the general
American dream of self-realization and material success."Lockhart was born into an Adventist family, became a member of the church through baptism, and studied theology at
Newbold College (where he later taught) and religion atAndrews University . Bull was also born into an Adventist family and spent one year at Newbold College, but never officially joined the church. Lockhart works as a freelance journalist, and Bull as a lecturer at theUniversity of Oxford .Adventist Forum meeting
The book's authors gave a series of presentations on "Adventism's Futures" at the Adventist Forums conference in Santa Rosa,
California on September 29, 2007.See also
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Adventist studies References
Reviews
First edition:
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive21-25/21-1reviews.pdf "Seeking a Sanctuary": Seventh-day Adventism as a Feature Film Classic] " by Jonathan Butler "Spectrum" 21:1 (December 1990)
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive21-25/21-1reviews.pdf"Seeking a Sanctuary": The Insiders' Insights for the Outsiders' Interest] " by R. Laurence Moore "Spectrum" 21:1 (December 1990)
* Review by Richard C. Osborn, "Journal of Adventist Education " 53 (Summer 1991), 44–45
* Review by Brian Eugene Strayer, "Andrews University Seminary Studies " 28 (Autumn 1990), 255–56
* Review by Gary M. Ross, "College and University Dialogue " 2:2 (1990), 26
* " [http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/MIN/MIN1989-12/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=29 Recently noted] " DjVulink "Ministry" 62 (December 1989), 29Second edition:
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/online/35-2douglass.pdf From American Export to Global Product] " byHerbert Douglass , "Spectrum" 35 (Spring 2007), 56–60
* [http://spectrummagazine.typepad.com/the_spectrum_blog/2007/09/review-of-seeki.html Review] byGary Land on the "Spectrum" BlogExternal links
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive16-20/20-1bull.pdf The Art of Expression] ", book chapter (1st edn.) reprinted in "Spectrum" 20:1 (1989), 14–23
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/online/34-4bulllockhart.pdf Authority and Identity] ", book chapter (2nd edn.) reprinted in "Spectrum" 34 (Autumn 2006), 35–50
* " [http://spd.adventist.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/32348/REC0907.pdf#page=8 Looking at Adventism] ", an interview of Keith Lockhart byJulius Nam , "Record" March 17, 2007, p.8–9
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