Study Materials

  Report on Hope International and Associated Groups   Introduction       As a result of concerns raised by then General Conference President, Robert S Folkenberg and several world division presidents, the General Conference Administrative Committee (ADCOM), in early 1998, established an ad hoc committee to interview the leadership of Hope International, publishers of “Our Firm Foundation,” […]

  Primacy of the Gospel Committee – Report     Introduction       In pursuing matters raised in a small group—which included Robert S Folkenberg and George W Reid from the General Conference and Robert J Wieland, Donald K Short, and Gerald Finneman who are leaders in the 1888 Message Study Committee—the Administrative Committee appointed a committee […]

  Information on the Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement Gerhard Pfandl, BRI     I.    Origin   In many parts of the world field today Adventists are confronted by an organization calling itself the Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement. Sometimes this group is designated as the “German Reform Movement” because it originated in Germany. Frequently, this organization is […]

  The Branch Davidians/Shepherd’s Rod—Who Are They? George W. Reid The Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, fame were themselves a division of a small offshoot group known as the Shepherd’s Rod, who left the Adventists Church in 1930. To meet a continuing need for information about this group, this brief article, reprinted with slight alteration […]

  Appeal to Those in the Reform Movement or Those Considering Such Membership Helmut Kramer Upper Columbia Conference      Some 15 years have passed since the Biblical Research Institute first published the book I authored, The Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement.  When the manuscript was first written, I was relatively new in my experience within the Seventh-day Adventist […]

  The ABCs of Dr. Desmond Ford’s Theology W. H. Johns Introduction by George W. Reid       In 1980 a theological controversy centering on the teachings of Dr. Desmond Ford came to the forefront with a major gathering of theologians and administrators at Glacier View Ranch in Colorado. At stake was the future work of Dr. […]

Seventh-day Adventists and the Ecumenical Movement Bert B Beach The General Conference Executive Committee has never voted an official statement regarding the Seventh-day Adventist relationship to the ecumenical movement as such. A book has been written dealing at length with the subject1 and a number of articles have appeared over the years in Adventist publications, […]

  Justification by Faith: An Adventist Understanding by Peter M. van Bemmelen, Th.D. August 2007 Introduction Seventh-day Adventists believe that they have been called to proclaim the everlasting gospel to every nation, tribe, language, and people, in the context of the messages of the three angels in Revelation 14:6-12. These messages are God’s final appeal […]

  Miroslav M. Kis .- Andrews University – August 30, 2007 HUMAN NATURE AND DESTINY A Seventh-day Adventist Reflection The biblical message confronts contemporary minds with an intriguing concept of true human identity: a speck of dust carved into God’s image, a blade of grass cherished as the apple of His eye (Deuteronomy 32:10). Defacement […]

Ellen G. White’s Ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Denis Fortin Dean and Professor of Theology Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary Andrews University Paper presented at the conversation with the World Evangelical Alliance Andrews University August 7, 2007 Seventh-day Adventists believe that God bestows upon all members of his church in every age spiritual gifts which […]