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Messenger of the Lord

The Prophetic Ministry of Ellen G. White

by Herbert E. Douglass

God called a seventeen-year-old girl, frail and in poor health, to proclaim His Word and guide His people. For the next seventy years Ellen White served as the Lord's messenger--writing, preaching, counseling, traveling, warning, and encouraging--as she faithfully delivered the communications God gave her for His church and the world.

How did her roles as wife, mother, neighbor, soul winner, and public personality affect her prophetic function?

What is the relationship between her writings and the Bible? How should we listen to her writings today? Are they still relevant? What was the impact of her ministry on the development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its doctrines?

Messenger of the Lord is a fresh and appealing volume written both for those who are grateful for what Ellen White’s contributions have brought and for those who want to know more about her. Those with unresolved questions about her long ministry will enjoy the candid discussion of issues that have been raised in recent years about her claim to be God’s messenger.

Avondale Theology/Ministry

Contents:

 
Section I: God’s Communication System
  • The Revealer and the Revealed
  • God Speaks Through Prophets
  • Characteristics of the Prophets
Section II: The Real Ellen White
  • The Person and Her Times
  • Messenger,Wife, and Mother
  •  Physical Health
  • Personal Characteristics
  • As Others Knew Her
  • Humor, Common Sense, and a Practical Counselor
  • The American Pioneer and the Victorian Woman
  •  The Prolific Writer
  • The Sought-for Speaker
Section III: The Listening Messenger
  • Delivering God’s Message
  • Confirming the Confidence
  • Timely Instruction and Predictions
  •  Ellen White’s Self-awareness as a Messenger
Section IV: The Voice of a Movement
  • Organization, Unity, and Institutional Development
  • Theological Crises
  • Evangelism, Local and Global, and Race Relations
  • Stewardship, Government Relations, and Humanitarian Involvement
  • Dissidents, Within and Without
  • Who’s Who in the Adventist World of Ellen G.White (Photo Section)
Section V: Nurturer of Inspired Concepts
  • The Organizing Theme
  • Clarification of Major Doctrines
  • Health Principles/1: Emergence of a Health Message
  • Health Principles/2: Relationship of Health to a Spiritual Mission
  • Health Principles/3: Quality Improvement in Adventist Health
  • Health Principles/4: Principles and Policies
  • Health Principles/5: Reviewing a Century of Health Reform Principles
  • Education/1: Principles and Philosophy
  • Education/2: Establishing Educational Institutions
  • Publishing, Temperance, and Social Principles
Section VI: How to Listen to the Messenger
  • Hermeneutics/1: Basic Principles
  • Hermeneutics/2: Basic Rules of Interpretation—Internal
  • Hermeneutics/3: Basic Rules of Interpretation—External
  • Hermeneutics/4: Characteristics Shared by Biblical Writers and Ellen White
  • Hermeneutics/5: Authority and Relationship to the Bible
  • Hermeneutics/6: How Contemporaries Understood Ellen White’s Authority
  • Hermeneutics/7: 1919 Bible Conference/History Teachers Council
  • Understanding How the Books Were Written
  • Understanding How the Books Were Prepared
Section VII: How to Evaluate Criticism
  • Truth Still Makes One Free
  • Criticism Involving Relationships With Other People
  • Predictions, Scientific Observations, and Unusual Statements
  • The Shut Door—A Case Study
Section VIII: Continuing Relevancy of God’s Messenger
  • Does Ellen White Measure Up?
  • She Still Speaks
  •  Messenger and Message Inseparable
Appendix
  • Camp Meetings in Early Nineteenth Century
  • Background to Exchange of Letters Between James and Ellen White in 1874
  • Excerpts From Robert Louis Stevenson’s Across the Plains (1892)
  • A Partial List of Ellen G.White Visions
  • Basic Presuppositions Shared by Most Shut-door Critics
  • Time-conditioned or Time-related?
  • Ellen White’s Growth in Understanding Her Own Visions
  • Ellen White Enriched the Term “Shut Door”
  • Ellen White Led the Way in Building a Biblically-Oriented Message for the World
  • Response to Deletion of “Wicked World”
  • Why Ellen White Seemed to Reach Out Only to Shut-door Advocates
  • Chief Charges Against Ellen White Regarding Shut-door Issue and the Responses Through the Years
  • The July 13, 1847, Letter to Joseph Bates
  • Last Will and Testament of Ellen G.White
  • Comments of National Leaders in the Early 1860s Regarding Slavery Crisis
  • The Ellipse of SalvationTruth
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Publisher: Pacific Press

ISBN: 9780816316229

Format: Hardcover

STATUS: AVAILABLE TO ORDER (item is either in stock or quickly/soon obtainable from supplier)

Pages: 640

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