Adventist Remnant Ecclesiology: A Brief Historical and Bibliographical Survey

Lazić, Tihomir

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Tihomir Lazić⁴

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Abstract

This chapter traces the history of explicitly and implicitly ecclesiological reflections among Adventists from the time of the denomination’s inception to the present day. The first two sections offer a selective overview of the key ecclesiological reflections that have informed Adventist self-understanding from the time of the movement’s inception to the present day (the period from 1844 to 2019). They focus on clarifying the movement’s appropriation of the biblical concept of the remnant, its central ecclesiological self-designation (section “Adventism as God’s End-Time Remnant Church”), as well as on other fundamental motifs that have appeared throughout the years as integral segments of Adventist remnant outlook (section “Other Foundational Concepts”). The third section explores the ways in which Adventists have translated their remnant theology into the domain of church praxis, especially as it pertains to the formation of church structure. The primary aim of this section is to uncover the underlying theological rationale and modes of reasoning that governed the process of routinization of Adventist communal life. Finally, the last section offers a selective bibliographical overview of some of the most recent denominational publications that have contributed to the further consolidation and refinement of the traditional Adventist remnant-based ecclesiological discourse. Hopefully, in the light of this historical and bibliographical survey of Adventist ecclesiological literature, it will become possible to identify the key areas of Adventist ecclesiology where further reflection could lead to a more balanced and comprehensive vision of church.

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Notes

1.
For instance, see Rodríguez, Toward a Theology of the Remnant; Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, ed., Message, Mission and Unity of the Church, vol. 2, Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2013).
2.
Hyde, A Symposium on Biblical Hermeneutics, 225. For an introductory exposition of Adventist teaching about the remnant and its mission, see Hans K. LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” in Handbook of Seventh-Day Adventist Theology, ed. Raoul Dederen, Commentary Reference Series (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 2000).
3.
Hyde, A Symposium on Biblical Hermeneutics, 225. The denomination’s Fundamental Belief no. 13 is entitled ‘The Remnant and Its Mission’. See ‘Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists’, in Office of Archives, Seventh-Day Adventist Church Yearbook 2015.
4.
An extensive survey and discussion of earlier literature may be found in Stefan Höschele, “The remnant concept in early Adventism: from apocalyptic antisectarianism to an eschatological denominational ecclesiology,” AUSS 51, no. 2 (2013), http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rfh&AN=ATLA0001985096&site=ehost-live; Gideon Duran Ondap, “Diversity in the remnant concept in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist church (1841–1931)” (M.A. master’s thesis, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2003); Passmore Hachalinga, “Seventh-day Adventism and the remnant idea: A critical and analytical study of the Seventh-day Adventist ecclesiological self-understanding” (M.Th. master’s thesis, University of South Africa, 1998), http://search.proquest.com/docview/304470365?accountid=44389; Gerhard F. Hasel, The Remnant: The History and Theology of the Remnant Idea from Genesis to Isaiah, 3rd ed., Andrews University monographs Studies in religion (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1980).
5.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 201.
6.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 201–02. Rodríguez derives his interpretation from Gerhard F. Hasel, “Remnant,” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. Geoffrey William Bromiley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1988).
7.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 202; R. E. Clements, “Ša’ar,” in Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, ed. G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004); Noel Scott Rabinowitz, “Remnant and Restoration as a Paradigm of Matthew’s Theology of Israel” (3,132,478 doctoral thesis, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004), http://search.proquest.com/docview/305122768?accountid=44389
8.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 201–02.
9.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 202.
10.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 202.
11.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church.” The close connection between Christ and his eschatological remnant is also pointed out by Ekkehardt Mueller, “The End Time Remnant in Revelation,” JATS 11, no. 1–2 (2000): 191; Ben F. Meyer, “Jesus and the Remnant of Israel,” JBL 84 (1955).
12.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 202.
13.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 203.
14.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 203. For further research on Jesus and the remnant, see M. A. Elliot, “Israel,” in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. Joel B. Green (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2013).
15.
Hasel, “Remnant,” 736. See also: LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” 860–63; Tarsee Li, “The Remnant in the Old Testament,” in Toward a Theology of the Remnant: Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2009), 26–27.
16.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 205.
17.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 203. For further exploration of a standard Adventist interpretation of Revelation 12–14, as well as the way in which these three chapters contribute towards a wider eschatological framework of Adventism, see Ranko Stefanovic, Revelation of Jesus Christ: Commentary on the Book of Revelation, 2nd ed. (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 2009), 377–465; Jacques Doukhan, Secrets of Revelation: the Apocalypse Through Hebrew Eyes (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Pub. Association, 2002), 107–39.
18.
See Gerhard Pfandl, “Identifying Marks of the End-Time Remnant in the Book of Revelation,” in Toward a Theology of the Remnant: Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2009), 139.
19.
Pfandl, “Identifying Marks of the End-Time Remnant,” 139.
20.
Pfandl, “Identifying Marks of the End-Time Remnant,” 157–58.
21.
The following section is based on: Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 211–16; LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” 857–92.
22.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 212.
23.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 212; Jon Paulien, “Revisiting the Sabbath in the Book of Revelation,” JATS 9, no. 1–2 (2000): 179–86; Mathilde Frey, “Sabbath Theology in the Book of Revelation,” in Toward a Theology of the Remnant: Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2009).
24.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 212–13.
25.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 213; Hans K. LaRondelle, “Babylon: Anti-Christian Empire,” in Symposium on Revelation—Book II, ed. Frank B. Holbrook, Daniel and Revelation Committee Series (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 1992), 151–76.
26.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 213.
27.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 13; John W. Reeve, “Understanding Apostasy in the Christian Church,” in Message, Mission and Unity of the Church, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2013), 155–90.
28.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 213.
29.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 214; Fernando Canale, “The Message and the Mission of the Remnant: A Methodological Approach,” in Message, Mission and Unity of the Church, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2013), 261–86.
30.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 214. For further discussion, see LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” 875–77.
31.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 214.
32.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 214; LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” 877–79.
33.
Ellen G. White, Evangelism (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald, 1946), 234; Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 214.
34.
Mainstream Adventist publications also support this wider application of the symbol. See, for instance, LaRondelle, “The Remnant and the Three Angels’ Message,” 877–79.
35.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 215; Mervyn C. Maxwell, “The Mark of the Beast,” in Symposium on Revelation—Book II, ed. Frank B. Holbrook, Daniel and Revelation Committee Series (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 1992), 41–132.
36.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 215.
37.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 215.
38.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 215; Mueller, “The End Time Remnant in Revelation,” 188–204.
39.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 215; Gerhard Pfandl, “The Remnant Church,” JATS 8, no. 1–2 (1997); Hasel, The Remnant: The History and Theology of the Remnant Idea from Genesis to Isaiah. Hasel was one of the first Adventist theologians to articulate and promote this threefold interpretation of remnant among Adventist academics.
40.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 226.
41.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 218.
42.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 219.
43.
Adventists, “28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.” See the 12th and the 13th fundamental beliefs.
44.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 219; White, The Great Controversy, 390.
45.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 219–20.
46.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 220.
47.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 220.
48.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 218–21. Ondap, “Diversity in the remnant concept in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist church (1841–1931)”; Höschele, “The remnant concept in early Adventism: from apocalyptic antisectarianism to an eschatological denominational ecclesiology.”
49.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 226.
50.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 226; Canale, “On Being the Remnant,” 168–73.
51.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 221–24.
52.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 224.
53.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 225.
54.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 225.
55.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 225; Ángel Manuel Rodríguez “The Remnant and Adventist Church.” https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/materials/adventist-heritage/remnant-and-adventist-church; Clifford Goldstein, The Remnant: Biblical Reality or Wishful Thinking? (Boise, ID: Pacific Press, 1994).
56.
Stephan Paul Mitchell, “‘We are the Remnant’: A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Analysis of Seventh-day Adventist Ecclesiological Self-Understanding” (M.A. master thesis, Loma Linda University, 1988); Hachalinga, “Seventh-day Adventism and the remnant idea: A critical and analytical study of the Seventh-day Adventist ecclesiological self-understanding.”; Höschele, “The Remnant Concept in Early Adventism: from Apocalyptic Antisectarianism to an Eschatological Denominational Ecclesiology.”
57.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 244–48.
58.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 216.
59.
Rodríguez, “God’s End-Time Remnant and the Christian Church,” 216.
60.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 248.
61.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 250.
62.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 248. For a fuller exposition of an early Adventist interpretation of the Elijah motif, see Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 250–53.
63.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 253. Ellen White, for example, said that John ‘was a representative of those living in these last days to whom God has entrusted sacred truths to present before the people, to prepare the way for the second appearing of Christ’. See Ellen G. White, “God’s Call to Reform” (2016). http://www.whiteestate.org/devotional/mar/04_20.asp
64.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 253–54.
65.
Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church: Volume 3, vol. 3 (Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press, 1948), 207.
66.
Hannah Clough, “Letter to Dear Brother,” RH, May 291,856, 47; Uriah Smith, “Enoch’s Testimony,” RH, January 81,857, 75. For the antitypical significance of Enoch’s holiness of life, his warning of the world and his translation, see Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 254.
67.
Lukić, “The Anatomy of Dissension,” 166; Knight, A Search for Identity, 55–57.
68.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 248.
69.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 263.
70.
This concept of Christlikeness was used by Ellen White to describe the movement’s foundational desire to study and imitate the lifestyle of Christ, especially his complete unselfishness (similar to ‘disinterested benevolence’ in Samuel Hopkins and other New England theologians), which became one of the key reference points when talking about the motives for Adventist missionary activity. Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church: Volume 1, vol. 1 (Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press, 1948), 482; Samuel Hopkins, The System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Relation, Explained and Defended, 2d ed., 2 vols. (Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1811).
71.
Ellen G. White, “Faith of Jesus,” RH, March 71,854; Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church: Volume 2, vol. 2 (Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press, 1948), 631–32.
72.
White, Testimonies, 1, 197.
73.
For a detailed presentation, see Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 263–68.
74.
This corresponds closely to the 1888 evangelical shift in the formation of Adventist identity, as described in Knight, A Search for Identity.
75.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 259–63.
76.
Jon L. Dybdahl, “Missionary God—Missionary Church,” in Re-Visioning Adventist Mission in Europe, ed. Erich Walter Baumgartner (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1998), 8–15.
77.
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee, “Mission Statement of the Seventh-day Adventist Church” (2014). https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/-/mission-statement-of-the-seventh-day-adventist-church/
78.
Canale, “On Being the Remnant”; Borge Schantz, The Development of Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Thought: Contemporary Appraisal (Ph.D. diss: Fuller Theological Seminary, 1983).
79.
A more detailed study of an early Sabbatarian Adventism is available in Everett N. Dick, “The Adventist Crisis of 1843–44” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1980); Richard W. Schwarz, Light Bearers to the Remnant (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1979); A. G. Mustard, “James White and SDA Organization: Historical Development, 1844–1881” (Ph.D. dissertation, Andrews University, 1987).
80.
A record of the proceedings of the 1863 session can be found in “Report of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,” RH, 20 May 1963, 204–08.
81.
George R. Knight, Organizing for Mission and Growth: The Development of Adventist Church Structure (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2006).
82.
For an insightful historical study of challenges that early Sabbatarian Adventists faced in their efforts to organize themselves as a distinctive religious group, see Dick, “The Adventist Crisis of 1843–44.”; Mustard, “James White and SDA Organization: Historical Development, 1844–1881.”
83.
For a detailed account of the most important sociological, historical, cultural and theological factors that contributed to the formation of Adventist organizational structure, see Oliver D. Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, vol. XV, Andrews University Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series (Berrian Springs, MI: Adventist University Press, 1989), doctoral dissertation.
84.
Richard Bowen Ferret, Charisma and Routinisation in a Millennialist Community: Seventh-Day Adventist Identity (Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).
85.
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, “Constitution of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists” (2010). http://www.ted-adventist.org/sites/default/files/%2806%29Gcwp-ConstitutionBylaws.pdf. This document was last revised at the 59th Session of the GC, held in Atlanta, USA, from June 24 to July 3, 2010.
86.
Ferret, Charisma and Routinisation in a Millennialist Community: Seventh-day Adventist Identity; Knight, Organizing for Mission and Growth: The Development of Adventist Church Structure; Rowland Hsu, “Governance Practices of the Seventh-day Adventists: Compared with Governance Standards and Practices of Corporate and Other Denominational Counterparts” (Doctor of Business Administration doctoral thesis, Golden Gate University, 1997).
87.
In 1901, delegates from around the globe, representing 78,188 members in 57 conferences and 41 mission fields, gathered to discuss and vote on necessary administrative and organizational changes. See “Seventh-day Adventist Polity: Its Historical Development,” Biblical Research Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist church, accessed 05/03/2015, https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org
88.
Apart from the recent period, in which there has been a growing interest in ecclesiology, the period of the formation of the church’s name and institutional structures (1860s) and, to an even greater degree, the period of ecclesiastical reorganization (1890s–1900s) could be regarded as the most fruitful periods in terms of the development of Adventist ecclesiology. The church was prompted to engage in more serious ecclesiological discussion. See Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, XV.
89.
Henceforth, I will use the terms ‘ontological’ and ‘functional’ in the same sense as Barry Oliver, an expert on Adventist organizational structure, uses them in his recent publications. Alternative terms could also be ‘relational’ and ‘functional’, since the ontological view has been explained in the period of church reorganization (1901–1903) in relational terms. However, given that its characterizations are predominantly individualistic (referring to the relationship between individuals and Christ), and that as a resolution I would like to propose an integrative ‘communio model’—one that does not juxtapose but rather harvests the best of the functional and ontological structural insights—I have kept terms such as communal and relational for a fully developed, third structural model. This allows me to differentiate more clearly between these structural interpretations.
90.
During the Ottawa, Kansas, camp-meeting of 1889, Jones asked the question, ‘Who compose the church?’ and then answered, ‘The members; those who believe in Christ’. See Topeka, Kansas Daily Capital, 16 May 1889. For the collections of sermons preached on that occasion, see The 1889 Camp Meeting Sermons: As Found in the Topeka, Kansas Daily Capital May 7–28, 1889 (St. Maries, ID: LMN Publications, 1987).
91.
GC Bulletin, 1901, pp. 37–38.
92.
Oliver D. Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” in Faith In Search of Depth and Relevancy, ed. Reinder Bruinsma (Nova Pazova, Serbia: Euro Dream, 2014), 435–43.
93.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 435; Oliver D. Barry, “Reflections on the Church and Unity,” in Adventist Maverick Celebration of George R. Knight’s Contribution to Adventist Thought, ed. Gilbert M. Valentine and Woodrow W. Whidden (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 2014).
94.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 434.
95.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 444–48.
96.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 444–45. Some of the key Scriptural passages that are employed to substantiate their position of urgency were: 1 Thessalonians 4.16–18; John 14.1–3; Acts 1.7–9; Matthew 24.14; 28.19–20; Mark 16.15–16; Revelation 14.6–14.
97.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 444.
98.
Barry quotes the words from A. G. Daniells’s personal correspondence with W. C. White (17 May 1903). See Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 444.
99.
See, for instance, W. A. Spicer, “Divine Warnings Against Disorganization,” RH, 14 September 1916, 4; S. N. Haskell, “Organization—No. 18,” RH, 16 May 1907, 4; A. G. Daniells, “Organization as Developed by Our Pioneers,” RH, 21 February 1918, 5; J. L. McElhany, “Principles of Conference Administration,” Ministry, March 1938, 5.
100.
A. G. Daniells, “A Statement Concerning Our Present Situation—No. 3,” RH, 22 February 1906, 6; Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 444.
101.
GC Bulletin, 1901, p. 20, 27.
102.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 445; A. G. Daniells, “The President’s Address: A Review and an Outlook—Suggestions for Conference Action,” RH, 11 May 1905, 8.
103.
Uriah Smith, “Living on Borrowed Time,” RH, 1 October 1901, 636; “Sermon by A. G. Daniells at the Opening of the Conference,” Bulletin of the European Union Conference Held in London, May 15–25, 1902, 3; S. N. Haskell, “Australia,” RH, 6 January 1885, 12.
104.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447.
105.
Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission; Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, XV; Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 445.
106.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447.
107.
Ellen G. White, “Missionary Enterprise the Object of Christ’s Church,” RH, 30 October 1894, 673.
108.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447.
109.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447; Uriah Smith, “Origin and History,” RH, 27 January 1891, 57.
110.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447.
111.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 447.
112.
The notion of the church being ‘a missionary society’ was first ventured among Adventists in 1863, the year when the General Conference was organized. See, for instance, Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-Day Adventist Message and Mission, 256.
113.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 448.
114.
Barry’s research reveals: ‘In the years 1850–59, 14 articles were written in the RH on subjects immediately related to church order and government; 1860–69, 42 articles were written; 1870–79, 33 articles; 1880–89, 34 articles; 1890–99, only 6 articles. It is difficult to know just why there were so few articles on the question of church order and government in the 1890s. Perhaps it was the realization that there were serious problems with the system of organization, and nobody was able to suggest improvements that could solve the dilemma. On the other hand, it may be that many suggestions for structural modification were being made, but they were being suppressed by an editorial policy that considered them counterproductive to the unity and stability of the organization.’ See Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 448.
115.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 448. Following the standard practice in the field of ecclesiology, I use the term ‘ecclesiological’ to denote a theological discourse on the nature of church, and ‘ecclesiastical’ to refer to discussion of the structures of the church, and its practices, that may or may not be defined theologically.
116.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization”; Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, XV.
117.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 449.
118.
S. N. Haskell, “Is Organisation of God?,” RH, 11 October 1892.
119.
J. N. Loughborough, “The Church: Order in Ancient Israel,” RH, 9 April 1901, 234–35; W. A. Spicer, Gospel Order: A Brief Outline of the Bible Principles of Organisation (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1909).
120.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 450.
121.
Haskell, “Organisation,” 634.
122.
Haskell, “Organisation,” 634; A. G. Daniells, “Organisation—No. 15,” RH, 16 May 1907, 4–5.
123.
Daniells, “Organisation,” 5.
124.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 451.
125.
Jones’s objections did not have any significant influence on Adventist leaders at the time. The Mosaic organizational pattern continued to be used as the biblical rationale for the current shape of Adventist organization. For proof that this model was used as the main structural paradigm in later decades, see W. A. Spicer, “This Second Advent Movement: An Organized Movement,” RH, 24 April 1930, 5–6; S. G. Haughey, “Our Church Organization,” RH, 12 March 1931, 11–12; McElhany, “Principles of Conference Administration,” 5–7.
126.
W. A. Spicer, “Gospel Order—No. 1,” RH, 25 March 1909, 4.
127.
A. G. Daniells to L. R. Conradi, 1 July 1903; Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 452.
128.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 454.
129.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 435.
130.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 435.
131.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 433.
132.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 433; Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, XV.
133.
Barry, “Why Are We Who We Are? The Ecclesiological Polemic that Shaped Reorganization,” 433–34.
134.
Walter Raymond Beach and Bert Beverly Beach, Pattern for Progress: The Role and Function of Church Organization (Washington, DC: Review and Herald Pub. Association, 1985).
135.
This academic gap represents a standing invitation to Adventist scholars to articulate in an explicit way what is implicitly present in the church’s ecclesiastical practice. This could facilitate further self-critical reflection and contribute to a more mature ecclesiological vision.
136.
Provonsha, A Remnant in Crisis; Marvin Moore, Challenges to the Remnant: Adventists, Catholics and the “The Church” (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2008). Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2007052297.html; A. Leroy Moore, Adventism in conflict (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Pub. Association, 1995).
137.
Carmelo L. Martines, “The Remnant Concept in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Reasons in the Background of the Contemporary Debate” (Ph.D. dissertation, River Plate Adventist University, 2002); Timm, “Seventh-Day Adventist Ecclesiology, 1844–200: A Brief Historical Overview.”
138.
See, for instance, Froom, Movement of Destiny; Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission; Timm, The Sanctuary and the Three Angels’ Messages: Integrating Factors in the Development of Seventh-day Adventist Doctrines; R. J. Pöhler, “Change in Seventh-day Adventist Theology: A Study of the Problem of Doctrinal Development” (Th.D. diss. doctoral dissertation, Andrews University, 1995); Knight, A Search for Identity; Rodríguez, Message, Mission and Unity of the Church.
139.
See, for instance, Mustard, “James White and SDA Organization: Historical Development, 1844–1881.”; Barry, SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future, XV; Knight, Organizing for Mission and Growth: The Development of Adventist Church Structure.
140.
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141.
Alberto R. Timm, “Seventh-day Adventist Ecclesiology, 1844–2012: A Brief Historical Overview,” in Message, Mission and Unity of the Church, ed. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2013), 219–42; Timm, “Seventh-Day Adventist Ecclesiology, 1844–200: A Brief Historical Overview.”
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For an extensive overview of the topics, see Klingbeil, “Ecclesiological in Seventh-day Adventist Theological Research, 1995–2004: a Brief Introduction and Bibliographical Guide,” 24–27.
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