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The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) [5] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [6] [7] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [8] the seventh day of the week in the Christian and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [7] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist ...
These beliefs were originally known as the 27 fundamental beliefs when adopted by the church's General Conference in 1980. An additional belief (number 11) was added in 2005. [1] The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary is a significant expression of Adventist theological thought.
The following is a list of works currently in the public domain which are included in the bibliographies of works relating to the topic of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Where possible, the works below are listed according to the name of the individual article in whose biography they are included.
Light Bearers: A History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (3d ed.). Originally Schwarz, Richard W. (1979). Light Bearers to the Remnant. Official history, and first written by a trained historian. Vance, Laura L. Seventh-day Adventism Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an Emerging Religion. (1999). 261 pp.
The investigative judgment is a unique Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, which asserts that the divine judgment of professed Christians has been in progress since 1844. It is intimately related to the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and was described by the church's prophet and pioneer Ellen G. White as one of the pillars of Adventist ...
Shut-door theology was a belief held by the Millerite group from 1844 to approximately 1854, some of whom later formed into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It held that as William Miller had given the final call for salvation, all who did not accept his message were lost.
In 1981 disfellowshipped Australian Adventist Robert Brinsmead published Sabbatarianism Re-examined [7] in which he criticised the Sabbath, arguing the Ten Commandments are not all inclusive. Norm Young wrote in 1989 that "current Adventist exegesis conceives of the law as a total religious system and doesn't agree with the sharp distinction ...
The Seventh-day Adventist denomination expresses its official teachings in a formal statement known as the 28 Fundamental Beliefs. This statement of beliefs was originally adopted by the church's General Conference in 1980, with an additional belief (number 11) being added in 2005. [ 1 ]