The completely revised second edition further explores one of the most successful of America's indigenous religious groups. Despite this, the Adventist church has remained largely invisible. Seeking a Sanctuary casts light on this marginal religion through its socio-historical context and discusses several Adventist figures that shaped the perception of this Christian sect.
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"The first edition of this book was one of the few must reads for academics interested in the Seventh-day Adventists.... The new edition expands several features of the first: it places more emphasis on regional variations, offshoot groups, and ethnic diversity. Bull (Oxford) and Lockhart (London-based journalist) situate Adventist history in the larger context of American history and, just as importantly, trace the evolution of Adventist doctrine. Recognizing that Adventists form their own subculture, they also provide sociological analysis. This book gives full attention to internal theological conflicts of recent decades. Finally, Seeking a Sanctuary is well written and comprehensive. Any library collecting material on American history or religion should have it.... Essential." —Choice
(Choice )"A provocative and penetrating account of a complicated and remarkably little-known movement." —Eileen Barker, Sociological Analysis
(Eileen Barker Sociological Analysis )"The most comprehensive review and insightful analysis in print of the sociology, history, and culture of the Seventh-Day Adventist church." —Church History
(Church History )"A masterpiece. It is by far the best book on Adventism that has ever appeared." —Ronald L. Numbers
"We do not often pause to point to a denominational history, but when one this good comes along, we pause." —Martin E. Marty
"The most informed study of Adventism." —Harold Bloom
"Make no mistake. For both its breadth and depth, this is the best study of Seventh—Day Adventism that has ever been written." —Jonathan M. Butler
"I recommend to clergy that they read Seeking a Sanctuary.... you will be more attuned to the sociological trends that drive Seventh-day Adventism." —
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This book is excellent for all Seventh-day Adventists who would like to "see themselves as others see them." It contains some valuable insights from an "outsiders" perspective on the Seventh-day Adventist subculture.
The authors do seem to occasionally miss the mark due to a lack of understanding of the belief system; and therefore, in some areas draw somewhat erroneous conclusions based on the misunderstanding, and thus perhaps a faulty working premise. However, if you have ever looked at your fellow Adventist or at the church hierarchy and structure and wondered "why is it that way?" or "why do they act that way?" or "how on earth did they reach that conclusion?" This book may have answers to some church behavior that have always puzzled you.
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This magisterial work is generally regarded as the most important academic study of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Bull and Lockhart create a compelling picture of the SDAs as one of America's least-understood, but most-successful, indigenous religious movements. This study brings together a history of the SDA Church and a study of its subcultures with an analysis of the Church's ambivalent relationship with the United States. This ambivalence is characterized by the authors as a function of the Adventist preoccupation with time: The Church's peculiar understanding of temporality (its emphasis on the seventh-day Sabbath and its focus on eschatology) is, according to Bull and Lockhart, the primary source of its identity. Sometimes they push this understanding too far. For example, at one point they interpret the disapproval of novels on the part of Ellen White and the early Adventist leadership as a rejection of the secular understanding of time that would be encouraged by the novel as a literary form. A couple of pages later, though, the argues discuss the encouragement of specifically SDA novels by the same early leadership. If it had been the novel as a form per se that was problematic due to Adventist concerns about marking out sacred time, then the subject matter would have been irrelevant. If this approach is occasionally stretched to (or beyond) its breaking point, it nonetheless provides a fascinating interpretive lens through which to view Adventism in America.
The final third of Seeking a Sanctuary is devoted to a consideration of "Adventist Subculture," analyzing the interplay between race, gender, socio-economics, and professional life in the inner dynamics of Adventism. These chapters are uneven. The most fascinating is a discussion of the influence of health reform and Adventist medicine on the overall direction of Adventist culture, polity, and theology. Bull and Lockhart argue that the classic denominalization thesis is not really applicable to the SDA church; this body, they say, has been not so much denominalized as medicalized. The tensions between the ordained ministry and administration of the church, on the one hand, and its medical practitioners and institutions on the other, emerges with compelling vividness in this discussion. This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Adventism or sectarian movements in America.
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excellent subject. Authors use of wording could be simplified.The reading is made more difficult than it should be for this subject.
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