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Global Church Member Research And Adventist Young People, Galina Stele May 2019

Global Church Member Research And Adventist Young People, Galina Stele

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

The paper will draw on findings of young people subsamples from the 2017-2018 Global Church Member Survey with the main focus on the 21-35 age group. Young people’s spiritual practices, beliefs, involvement, perception of and satisfaction with the Adventist church will be presented with suggestions for their retention and discipleship.


The Social Gospel Movement And Adventism From Late Ninteenth To Early Twentieth Century In The United States, Michelet William Feb 2019

The Social Gospel Movement And Adventism From Late Ninteenth To Early Twentieth Century In The United States, Michelet William

Seminary Scholarship Symposium

The Social Gospel is a religious social-reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. Advocates of the movement interpreted the Kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. The Social Gospel is rooted in American Protestant liberalism, which was largely influenced by the ideologies of the Progressive Era during late nineteenth century. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, while distancing itself from the Social Gospel mainly due to theological reasons, had fought for social issues of its time …