Light Bearers

ISBN: 081631795X

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Contemporary history of the SDA Church that shows how continuity despite change, unity in diversity, and singleness of purpose amid an expanding breadth of activity have combined to produce an Adventist world that the pioneers could never have imagined.

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A classic work of Adventist history revised and updated for today’s reader

More than 20 years ago Richard W. Schwarz chronicled the exciting story of how a "little flock" grew into the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist denomination with some 10 million members operating churches, schools, hospitals, publishing houses, and other institutions in the book Light Bearers to the Remnant.

Now Floyd Greenleaf, for many years a professor of history at Southern Adventist University, has revised and updated the book to deal with the developments in the world of Adventism since the earlier edition was published. The result is Light Bearers, a carefully researched, contemporary history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that shows how continuity despite change, unity in diversity, and singleness of purpose amid an expanding breadth of activity have combined to produce an Adventist world that the pioneers could never have imagined.

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Item Format Paperback
Author Name Richard W. Schwarz
Publisher Pacific Press Publishing Association
Weight (lbs) 2.040000
Page Count 688
Language English
Year Published 2000

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good source for some SDA pioneer info and general overview of church history and major issues faced
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I thought this book was a pretty good reference for Seventh-day Adventist history. It has a lot of details of the original white American Seventh-day Adventist founders. Not as much on African-American pioneers, unfortunately. I guess I'll have to find another book to fill those gaps. Also, it doesn't have as much details as I'd like about the native peoples that they reached and who began to go out and preach and be pioneers in their own countries, which, I believe may be partially due to the way records were kept back in the 1800s and early 1900s, based on my searches of other books and online records. It is American-centric. But it does touch briefly on missionaries sent to many other countries around the world which was a feature that I liked. And when I say "briefly," I mean that it mentions just that a missionary was sent to a certain place. (Occasionally, there is a little more detail for foreign countries.) That said, based on what was in it, this book is a good source for researching Adventist history. It gives a hefty amount of details for key events and issues that the founders and the church navigated in the first fifty years or so (up to about the early 1900s). Of course, it doesn't have as much detail on the more recent church history and issues, just the highlights. It is divided into sections and has a topical index which comes in handy. I would recommend it for anyone who doesn't mind a long read (it's over 600 pages!) and wants to study Adventist Church history. If you want a quick, summative read, you could try "Tell It to the World", by C. Mervyn Maxwell, or "Church Heritage" by the SDA Youth Dept.

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