More than 180 pastors exited the Seventh-Day Adventist ministry in Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1988—a loss that is equivalent to 40 percent of the total annual Adventist ministerial workforce in those two countries. This volume examines the processes whereby conservative and committed sectarian pastors began to entertain doubts concerning the sectarian cause, questioned their occupational calling, and turned their backs on the ministry. Using the data gathered from in-depth interviews with 43 expastors and from other sources, the author develops detailed case study profiles, which highlight the personal, organizational, and social factors involved in their decision, and the types of experiences they associate with leaving the ministry. The first study of clergy fallout from a sectarian community, this volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of exiting.
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"This book is much more than a study of resignations from the Seventh-Day Adventist ministry in Australia and New Zealand....The combination of careful empirical research, sophisticated theory and clear writing make the book essential reading not only for specialists in the study of sectarian organizations but also for readers who are intrigued by the chequered history of Adventism."-Jim Beckford Department of Sociology University of Warwick
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Explores the unprecedented clergy fallout from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the 1980s.
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exit from ministry, investigative judgement, continuing pastors, lazy monopoly, exit narratives, personal anomie, leaving ministry, clergy wives, commenced training, role exit, active pastors, church administrators, following exit, atrocity tales, licensed ministers, former pastors, retired pastors, status passage, heresy trial, sectarian community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ellen White, Seventh-day Adventist, Glacier View, Des Ford, New Zealand, General Conference, United States, Seventh-day Adventism, South Pacific Division, Avondale College, Union Conference, Sanctuary Review Committee, Sabbath School, Old Testament, Executive Committee, Present Truth, Robert Brinsmead, Unification Church, Brother Parmenter, Christianity Today, Doctor Ford, Duncan Eva, North America, Propagating Cynicism, Desmond Ford New!
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This book is about Seventh-day Adventist expastors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exit from ministry, investigative judgement, continuing pastors, lazy monopoly, exit narratives, personal anomie, leaving ministry, clergy wives, commenced training, role exit, active pastors, church administrators, following exit, atrocity tales, licensed ministers, former pastors, retired pastors, status passage, heresy trial, sectarian community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ellen White, Seventh-day Adventist, Glacier View, Des Ford, New Zealand, General Conference, United States, Seventh-day Adventism, South Pacific Division, Avondale College, Union Conference, Sanctuary Review Committee, Sabbath School, Old Testament, Executive Committee, Present Truth, Robert Brinsmead, Unification Church, Brother Parmenter, Christianity Today, Doctor Ford, Duncan Eva, North America, Propagating Cynicism, Desmond Ford New!
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- The Shaking of Adventism by Geoffrey J. Paxton on page 102, page 103, and Back Matter
- Divorce in the Parsonage by Mary Lagrand Bouma on page 161, and Back Matter
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