Walter Bauer (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press), 317.
409.
Ian Rennie, "Evangelical Theology" in New Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP, 1988), 239-240.
Alan Wolfe, "The Opening of the Evangelical Mind" in Atlantic Monthly, October 2000.
Although each article is signed... all contributions...subject to review and suggestions from the Biblical Research Institute Committee,
a group of 40 persons predominantly scholars but including a few administrators.... The whole working team ... could claim to be
genuinely international.... The aim... has been to produce a work of reference written in a spirit of unqualified loyalty to the
Scriptures as the written Word of God.... What is presented here is broadly representative of mainstream Adventist theology and
biblicval scholarship as they are practiced throughout the worldwide Adventist Church.... It is a work of constructive theology,
biblically based and Christ-centered, one that tries to see the whole in terms of the interrelationship of all its parts, and the parts
always in terms of their relationship to ane another and to the whole....
Also see Seventh-day Adventists Believe...,Ministerial Association, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (Hagerstwon,
MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1989).
Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Minneapolis:Bethany House, 1985), 423-437. Dr. Martin disagreeing with Dr. A.
Hoekema, Professor of systematic theology at Calvin's College, Michigan, who considers Seventh-day Adventism not an evangelical
denomination, points out that even Dr. Hoekema frankly admits that "It is recognized with gratitude that there are certain soundly
Scriptural emphases in the teaching of Seventh-day Adventism. We are thankful for the Adventists' affirmation of the infallibility of
the Bible, of the Trinity and of the full deity of Jesus Christ. We gratefully acknowledge their teachings on creation and providence,
on the incarnation and resurrection of Christ, on the absolute necessity for regeneration, on sanctification by the Holy Spirit, and on
Christ's literal return."--quoted from Anthony Hoekema, The Four Major Cults (Grand Rapids:Wm. Eerdmans), 389, 403.
Dr. Martin, after analysing the arguments of SDA critics, states, "It is puzzling to me, as a student of non-Christian cult systems, how
any group can hold the above doctrines in their proper Biblical context which Dr. Hoekema admits the Adventist do and still be a
non-Christian cult!"
been given for the gift of prophecy, a fresh examination of the New Testament teaching on this gift will show that it should be defined
not as "predicting the future," nor as "proclaiming a word from the Lord," nor as "powerful preaching"--but rather as "telling
something that God has spontaneously brought to mind."
categories of criticisms and charges. One category focuses on her doctrinal teachings, her claims of prophetic gift and insight through
her visions; the other category relates to her own life and Christian conduct and inconsistency. Some of the recurrent subjects include
her literary borrowing vs plagiarism; her end-time predictions; amalgamation of man and beast resulting in certain depraved races; her
inconsistency on health teaching and practice, etc. To obtain a balanced view, readers are encouraged to read the pros and cons of the
following writers and others:
Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Dudley M. Canright, Seventh-day Adventism Renounced (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1888); The Lord's Day
from neither Catholics nor Pagans,1915; The Complete Testimony of the Early Fathers, 1916; The Life of Mrs.E.G.White, 1919.
Francis D. Nichol, Ellen G. White and Her Critics--An answer to the major charges that critics have brought against Mrs. Ellen G.
white (Washington DC: Review and Herald Publishing, 1951). >600 pages.
Norman F. Douty, The Case of D. M. Canright (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1964).
H.M.S Richards, Mr. Canright's Confession (Glendale, CA: Glendale Union Academy Press, 1930).