
Moon explains that Ellen White was raised trinitarian but adopted a different view from the traditional one and contends that White's later writings on the Trinity is not the same as the view rejected by the early Adventists. Jerry Moon, emeritus professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Ellen White, the co-founder of the church, taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct beings yet are united as one in the Godhead. Several Seventh-day Adventist scholars have acknowledged that the Adventist view of the Trinity tends to differ in some aspects from the inherited traditional Christian view of the doctrine. Some Christian critics of Adventism contend that the current Adventist view of the Trinity is not orthodox and/or constitutes Tritheism. What Numbers and Rea started this book will finish."Ĭhurch doctrine Trinitarian views In reference to this explosive volume, John Dart, a longtime religion editor of the Los Angeles Times wrote "a devastating work. White, the "prophetic" co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This book describes the pathology of Ellen G. White a Psychobiography, by Steve Daily, a church historian and licensed psychologist. White is a highly sourced, well-documented book, Ellen G. The most recent and comprehensive critique of Ellen G. This revived a controversy that first emerged in the late 19th century when Conybeare and Howson sued White and her publisher for allegedly plagiarizing their 1855 book, Life and Epistles of the Apostle Paul, in preparing her own book, Sketches from the Life of Paul. Rea and Ronald Numbers wrote books criticizing Ellen White and accusing her of plagiarizing vitalist authors. In debates regarding the inspiration of Ellen White during the 1970s, Adventists Walter T. Hoekema, who did not agree with the Adventist view that Jacobus Arminius's theology was in line with Adventism, believed that Adventism was based on a Wesleyan/ Arminian stream of theology, and grouped Seventh-day Adventism with Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Science in his book The Four Major Cults. However, other scholars such as Calvinist theologian Anthony A.

In the middle of the 20th century, evangelical Walter Martin and the Christian Research Institute concluded that the Seventh-day Adventist church is a legitimate Christian body with some heterodox doctrines and stated, "They are sound on the great New Testament doctrines including grace and redemption through the vicarious offering of Jesus Christ 'once for all'.

Canright, an early leader of the movement in the late 19th century who apostatized and recanted but later left and became a Baptist pastor. One of the most prominent early critics of the church was D. 2.3 Investigative judgment and salvation.
