These volumes draw on original, largely-unpublished primary sources from the Archives that help piece together the Adventist past and provide a fuller picture for us today. They are presented in order of publication.
General Conference Archives Monograph Series
These volumes draw on original, largely-unpublished primary sources from the Archives that help piece together the Adventist past and provide a fuller picture for us today. They are available for purchase via Amazon.
"We aim at nothing less than the whole world": The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Missionary Enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863-2019
The subject of this book is how the Seventh-day Adventist Church organized for missionary purposes, in order to carry the gospel to the world, and the structures the denomination put in place to be able to send help to foreign fields. The zeal of pioneer Adventist missionaries and those who came after them is part of the story related in this short book. Yet, it tells not the personal stories of outstanding missionaries, but rather the story of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s formal efforts to organize global missions; the story told here, then, is the collective, shared, Adventist story.
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Adventist Mission in China in Historical Perspective presents a concise history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in China. While the book primarily details the major developments taking place at the administrative and institutional levels of the mission work in the Far East alongside accompanying statistics, it also highlights the contributions of its most prominent leaders within their secular historical contexts. As such, it offers a fresh synthetic account of the work in China not detailed elsewhere. It is the hope of the author that the history presented may both serve to inspire today's and tomorrow's leaders that God has surely been at the helm of the work in a challenging field, while also pointing out how certain developmental trends that have taken place may have hindered or not advanced our mission as rapidly as we all might desire.
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This book shares the story of the Seventh-day Adventist historian Walter C. Utt (1921-1985), a long-standing professor at Pacific Union College in California. Walter Utt (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) had a keen mind and widespread interests, ranging from ancient Greek and Christian history, especially the history of Christianity in France, to the issues concerning modern global politics and Church and State relations. He also had a lively sense of humor, and was an avid collector of various cartoons addressing contemporary social issues. In this short biography of Walter Utt by Dr. D.J.B. Trim, one may read about not only Walter Utt as a person, but gain a deeper look inside the Adventist Church itself, as well as the world, as Utt saw them as recorded in his various publications described within this book.
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