The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism
Overview
The Seventh-day Adventist church was founded upon an apocalyptic message that needed to be preached to the entire world—immediately and at any cost. But does the church today preach that same message with the same urgency? Has the Adventist church become irrelevant as it has sought to be more relevant to the world? Does the Adventist church have any reason for existence if it has lost that which makes it different from all the rest of Christianity? It is a question that should rattle Adventists. George R. Knight has been wrestling with this very question for nearly five decades.
If in fact Adventism has neutered itself, is there anything the church can do—as individuals and as a denomination—to remedy this shocking condition? Knight challenges Adventists to go back to their roots—to examine the prophecies that fueled the early Seventh-day Adventists’ determination to evangelize the world. Buried within the books of Daniel and Revelation are the only reasons for the Adventist church to exist. Knight calls for Adventist’s to uproot themselves from the pew in order to be truly Adventist.
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- Analyzes the distinct characteristics of the Seventh-day Adventist church
- Studies Daniel and Revelation as the root of the Adventism
- Examines how the Adventist church’s mission has evolved in the last half-century
- Enough of Beastly Preaching and an Introduction to Neutering
- Another Look at Apocalyptic Prophecy and Adventist History
- But Don’t Forget the Beasts (Including the Modern Ones) and My Problem with Apocalyptic
- The Fallacy of Straight-line Thinking and a Most Remarkable Prophecy
- Living the Apocalyptic Vision in the Twenty-first Century
- A Glimpse of Neoapocalyptic and a Belated Foreword
Top Highlights
“Put more bluntly, when a church becomes politically correct in all its claims and when it loses a proper amount of sanctified arrogance regarding its message and mission, it manages to neuter itself, even if it continues to brag about its potency.” (Page 16)
“I once even met a vegan who was as vicious as the devil. To have any value, our Adventism must be immersed in Christianity. Without that immersion, it is no better than any other deluded ‘ism.’” (Page 10)
“the second way in which Adventists can neuter their message—by removing the ‘lambishness’ of the Lamb.” (Page 22)
“No! was my reply. Gospel evangelism is to get people maladjusted to a culture that stands judged by the cross and found wanting; maladjusted to a culture that calls violence and illicit sex entertainment; maladjusted to a culture that pays tens of millions to ballplayers but puts elementary teachers on a starvation wage.” (Page 20)
“If Seventh-day Adventist institutions are Christian only in the sense that they have Jesus and the evangelical gospel, then any good evangelical school will do. And with that one stroke we have removed any compelling reason for Seventh-day Adventist schools to exist.” (Page 11)
- Title: The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism
- Author: George R. Knight
- Publisher: Review & Herald
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 107
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Seventh-day Adventists › Doctrines; Adventists › Doctrines; Bible › Prophecies; Christianity › Forecasting
- ISBNs: 9780828023856, 0828023859
- Resource ID: LLS:PCLYPTCVSDVNTSM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:11:32Z