Seventh-day Adventist Historiography by Gabriel Masfa;

Author:Gabriel Masfa;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peter Lang Group

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300See Glenn B. Siniscalchi, Retrieving Apologetics (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016); Yosseff Schwartz and Volhard Krech, eds., Religious Apologetics: Philosophical Argumentation (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2004); Avery C. Dulles, A History of Apologetics (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius, 2005).

301Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman Jr., Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith, 2nd ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2005), 4–7.

302Francis R. Beattie, The Rational Vindication of Christianity (Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publications, 1903), 1:56.

303John W. Taylor, “Mahlon Ellsworth Olsen: Health Reformer, Educator, and Historian,” paper presented at the Association of SDA Historians, Oakwood University, Huntsville, AL, 2007, 3. See Mahlon E. Olsen, Much‐Loved Books (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1952), 55.

304Taylor, “Mahlon Ellsworth Olsen,” 15–16.

305Ibid., 14.

306Mahlon E. Olsen, A History of the Origin and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1925), 143–198, 255–272.

307Ibid., 21–195.

308Ibid., 33–72.

309Ibid., 9.

310Ibid., 11–61. For a parallel approach, see William A. Spicer, Beacon Lights of Prophecy (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1935), 8–20.

311Olsen, Origin and Progress, 73–166.

312Olsen, Origin and Progress, 22.

313Ibid., 625.

314John A. Waller, “Adventist English Teachers: Some Roots,” Spectrum 10 (1979): 37–46.

315Individuals such as Spicer, Edwin R. Palmer, Francis M. Wilcox, Warren E. Howell, Charles W. Irwin, and Frederick Griggs provided significant feedback. Loughborough as an experienced writer was the most important individual Olsen interviewed. Olsen, Origin and Progress, 9.

316Olsen provided a wide variety of sources ranging from letters, books, diaries, and interviews. He also provided a partial bibliography and an index. Ibid., 21–1295.

317Godfrey T. Anderson, Spicer: Leader With Common Touch (Hagerstown, MD: Review & Herald, 1983), 7–124.

318Spicer, Beacon Lights of Prophecy, 8.

319Ibid.

320G. Anderson, Spicer, 96.

321Ibid.

322William A. Spicer, Our Day in the Light of Prophecy (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1918), 11.

323G. Anderson, Spicer, 97.

324Ibid., 102.

325Ibid., 96.

326Ibid.

327William A. Spicer, After One Hundred Years, 1844–1944: How the Work of Seventh-day Adventists Has Spread to the Ends of the Earth (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1944).

328William A. Spicer, Pioneer Days of the Advent Movement: With Notes on Pioneer Workers and Early Experiences (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1941), 113–256.

329William A. Spicer, Certainties of the Advent Movement (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1929), 267–268.

330Ibid., 268.

331Arthur W. Spalding was born on January 24, 1877 in Jackson, Michigan. Allan William Freed, “Arthur Whitefield Spalding: A Study of His Life and Contributions to Family-Life Education in the Seventh-day Adventist Church” (PhD diss., Andrews University, 1995), 49.

332Ibid., 52.

333Arthur W. Spalding, Origin and History of the Seventh-day Adventists: A Revision of the Books Captains of the Host and Christ’s Last Legion (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1961), 1:5.

334Ibid., 1:6.

335Ibid, 1:5.

336Ibid., 1:162.

337Ibid., 1:6.

338Ibid., 1:6.

339Arthur W. Spalding, Footprints of the Pioneers (Washington, DC: Review & Herald, 1947), 7.

340The last chapter of Footprints of the Pioneers focuses on Jesus Christ as the historical figure through which the experience of the pioneers became meaningful and understandable. For a meaningful examination of philosophy of historical sites, see Erick Carter, “The Adventist Pilgrim: A Construct for Theological Reflection,” Journal of Adventist Theological Society 28 (2017): 45–60.

341Arthur W. Spalding, There Shines a Light: The Life and Work of Ellen G.

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