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In this indispensable book, P. Gerard Damsteegt explores the origins and basic theological structures that have motivated the Seventh-day Adventist Church for more than a century. Limiting himself to a descriptive historical-theological and missiological approach, Damsteegt analyzes the origin and significance of Seventh-day Adventists’ methods of Bible interpretation; the development of their...

As general background this chapter first provides an introductory survey of some of the major characteristics of the religious situation in the U.S.A. during the first half of the 19th century which led to the rise of an interconfessional movement out of which the SDA emerged. This period has been described in the light of two successive historical phases characterized by their dominant features as an “era of good feeling” and an
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