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Principles Of Church-State Relationships In The Writings Of Ellen G. White, Marcio D. Costa
Principles Of Church-State Relationships In The Writings Of Ellen G. White, Marcio D. Costa
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The Topic
Since the beginnings of Seventh-day Adventism there have been real or perceived tensions between two contrasting perspectives of church-state relationships: (1) the “eschatological view” that a union of church and state will lead to persecution in the times preceding the second coming of Christ, and (2) the “temporal view” that in order to accomplish its mission in the present, the church needs to work in an independent, but non-conflictual relationship with the state as far as it can do so without violating its primary allegiance to God.
The Purpose
In order to discover Ellen G. White’s position on …