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Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 24 December 2018 | When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion was being prepared in the mid-1990s, I was invited to write the article on Adventism for it. A decade later, Robert Wuthnow, its publisher, decided that it was time for a second edition, and I was […]
Read more at the source: Adventism in Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Today.
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Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 17 December 2018 | In the past two weeks we have uploaded two of the first three papers written in 1983-84 under the aegis of my historical and sociological study of global Adventism. We have just uploaded the third of these, “The Future of Seventh-day Adventism.” You are invited to read […]
Read more at the source: The Future of Seventh-day Adventism
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by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D | 27 November 2018 | During the first half of the 1980s, conflict within Seventh-day Adventism received a great deal of attention in the press. The titles of some of the articles included “The Shaking Up of Adventism?” [Christianity Today, 1980a]; “Theologian Told to Defend His Views” [Los Angeles Times, 1980a]; […]
Read more at the source: Seventh-day Adventists in Conflict
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by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D | 22 November 2018 | October 22 this year was the 174th anniversary of what Adventists know as “The Great Disappointment.” It also means that Adventists have been proclaiming urgently that Jesus is returning “soon” for 174 years. After that many years, what does “soon” mean? How soon is “soon”
Read more at the source: Urgent Apocalypticism in Adventism
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by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 13 November 2018 | The paper just uploaded to my website, which you are invited to read, was, like the previous paper, originally written at the request of the editor of an encyclopedia. In this case it was an article simply titled “Seventh-day Adventism” that was published in the Encyclopedia […]
Read more at the source: Adventist Apocalypticism
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Today.
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