Abstract
Examination of several aspects of Adventist theology has revealed that contemporary theologians, faced with theological and pragmatic dilemmas, have striven to find the reasons for the church’s existence. The longer they perceived the delay of the parousia, the more prominent the Master’s command, ‘Occupy till I come’, became. In this chapter the reasons for renewed social interest among the church’s leaders and theologians will be traced, by focusing on the historical development of general contemporary Adventist theology in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Adventism has often been regarded by other Christian denominations as a cult or religious innovation. See, for example, Anthony A. Hoekema, The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1963)
Jan Karel Van Baalen, The Chaos of Cults (London, Glasgow: Pickering and Inglis, 1979), pp. 228–56
J. Paul Williams, What Americans Believe and How They Worship (New York, Evanston: Harper and Row Publishers, 1962), pp. 427–452
Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, The Deceivers: What Cults Believe and How They Lure Followers (Amersham-on-the-Hill: Scripture Press, 1992), pp. 297–9.
Walter R. Martin, The Truth About Seventh-day Adventists (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1960).
I am indebted for this classification to Geoffrey J. Paxton, suggested in his book The Shaking of Adventism (Wilmington: Zenith Publishers, 1977).
Desmond Ford, ‘Daniel 8:14 and the Day of Atonement’, Spectrum 11: 2 (November 1980): 31.
The review of this meeting can be found in Raymond F. Cottrell, ‘The Sanctuary Review Committee and its New Consensus’, Spectrum 11:2 (November 1980): 2–26.
Desmond Ford, ‘Daniel 8: 14, The Day of Atonement, and The Investigative Judgement’ (a position paper), 1980. Later it was printed as Daniel 8: 14. The Day of Atonement, and the Investigative Judgement (Casselberry, FL.: Euangelion Press, 1980).
William Fagal, ‘Whatever Happened to the Remnant’, Adventists Affirm 2: 2 (Fall 1988): 3–4
See ‘Biography’ to Colin D. Standish and Russell R. Standish, Keepers of the Faith (Rapidan, VA: Hartland Publications, 1988).
See, for example, Ralph Larson, ‘Heresies Will Come In’, in Our Firm Foundation 6: 2 (February 1991): 16–20.
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Plantak, Z. (1998). Adventism’s ‘New Theology’. In: The Silent Church. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26649-4_8
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