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The archi-liturgical movement and the Seventh-day Adventist church
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. College of Human Ecology, 1975
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Soteriological Perspectives in the Seventh-day Adventist Church From 1930 to 2000
<p>The Topic</p> <p>The soteriology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, originally shaped in the mid-nineteenth century around the preparation for the imminent Second Coming, has undergone gradual development over time. By the mid-twentieth century, various perspectives emerged due to the …
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Perceptions of seventh-day adventist church ministers toward seventh-day adventist schools
The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church operates one of the largest private educational systems in the United States. However, throughout the past ten years, there has been a steady decrease in the enrollment of Seventh-Day Adventist schools, although church membership has increased. Previous …
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The Doctrine of the Sanctuary in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Three Approaches
<p>This investigation studies the Adventist theology of the sanctuary as it found expression in the writings of Uriah Smith (1832-1903), Albion Fox Ballenger (1861-1921), and Milian Lauritz Andreasen (1876-1962).</p> <p>Not only does the selection of these three figures make it possible to deal …
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Liturgy and Ritual as Religious Education: Implications for the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… of worship has not been the central focus of the Seventh-day Adventist church. An evangelistic priority has reduced its worship periods to mostly didactic acts, often leaving believers unsatisfied in their desires to worship. Structural deficiencies are evident in the neglect of liturgical and …
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An Analysis of Teacher Satisfaction in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Schools in Zimbabwe
… schools. Similar studies have also been done in Seventh-day Adventist church schools around the world. The importance of teacher satisfaction is crucial for the stability of education institutions in shaping students for success in their communities. The purpose of this study was to analyze …
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Toward a Biblical and Missiological Framework for Transformational Advocacy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
<p>Problem</p> <p>Adventists have been inconsistent in dealing with inequality and injustice in society, swaying between silence, accommodation, positional statements, and direct advocacy approaches. Although advocacy has become more prominent among Adventist thinkers since the end of the twentieth …
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The impact of African Caribbean settlers on the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Britain 1952-2001
… African Caribbean Settlers had on the British Seventh-day Adventist church from 1952-2001, and to determine what characterises Adventist mission in Britain and worldwide today. Before the arrival of African Caribbean settlers, the British SDA denomination experienced stagnation in membership. …
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An Exploratory Study of the Aims and Methods of Family Worship in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
<p>Problem</p> <p>The Adventist Church places a high value on family worship yet less than 50 percent of those surveyed indicated that the observance was practiced. It was posited that an investigation of the aims and methods of family worship might provide a partial answer to this phenomenon. This …
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The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh-day Adventist Church from the 1840s to 1889
… reconstructs chronologically the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway from the Haugian Pietist revival in the early 1800s to the establishment of the first Seventh-day Adventist Conference in Norway in 1887.</p> <p>The present study has been based as far as possible on primary …
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A Theory Base and Mission-Sending Model for the South American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… actively engage in the worldwide mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church by sending twenty-five families to serve as frontline missionaries in different countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Even though the South American Division can positively identify the first and third …
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Historical/Analytical Study Of The Contributions Of Alma E. McKibbin To The Seventh-Day Adventist Church School System
… (G. Ralph Thompson). Alma E. McKibbin, the first Seventh-day Adventist church school teacher in California, is little known among Seventh-day Adventists outside that state, where she began teaching in 1896. She developed a Bible curriculum that was used for over half a century in the Seventh-day …
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The role of religious activities in fostering literacy: A case of the seventh day adventist church in Mongu district
From the onset of formal education, the church has been government’s partner in the provision and fostering of literacy. Zambia is constitutionally and demographically a Christian nation. The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church was selected for this study because it is a protestant denomination …
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Arthur Whitefield Spalding : A Study of His Life and Contributions to Family-Life Education in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… W. Spalding to family-life education within the Seventh-day Adventist church. The contextual milieu revealed that Spalding was current with his times in fostering family-life education, but unique in his approach.</p> <p>Method. The author examined primary documents from four archival sources, as …
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Factors Related to Declining Attendance at the Adult Sabbath School in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventist Church
… until the early part of the 20th century, the Adventist Sabbath School in North America was highly attended. During those times Sabbath School reached the highest attendance rate when Sabbath School membership was sometimes even larger than church membership. Following that time, the attendance …
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Zambia and the media : An evaluation of the use of mass media by the Church
… report investigated why and how the Christian Church used mass media for the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The report in particular investigated the Seventh Day Adventist Church (being one of the oldest and widely scattered Christian denominations in Zambia) and its communication …
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Zambia and the media : An evaluation of the use of mass media by the Church
… report investigated why and how the Christian Church used mass media for the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The report in particular investigated the Seventh Day Adventist Church (being one of the oldest and widely scattered Christian denominations in Zambia) and its communication …
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A Curriculum Data Base for Continuing Education for Ministers in the Colombia-Venezuela Union Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
<p>Background and Purpose of the Study. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is seeking research data on which to base the planning and development of efficient continuing education for ministry programs geographically and culturally adapted to the territories where the ministers are serving. As a …
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An Organizational Model for a Coordinated Program of Music Ministry for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North American and Europe
… Initiating work in the coordination of church music activities has been undertaken in the North American and European portions of the world-wide organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. There was a need to develop a comprehensive model of music ministry which the Church could …
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Ethical Analysis Of Abuses Of Power In Christian Leadership - A Case Study Of "Kingly Power" In The Seventh-day Adventist Church
… a part of Christian leadership, including the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership, no scholarly study on the moral dimensions of abuses of power in the Adventist Church has been done. Although such abuses are well known, without an ethical analysis of these experiences important lessons of …
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