The Seventh-day Adventist Church's own historical encyclopedia documents the 1888 General Conference session at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 17 October to 4 November, called principally over tariff policy on denominational literature, at which Ellet J. Waggoner and Alonzo T. Jones pressed righteousness by faith against resistance from General Conference president George I. Butler and Review and Herald editor Uriah Smith, with Ellen G. White backing the emphasis while distancing herself from disputed details of their argument, and records the session's slow and uneven acceptance in the years that followed.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church's own official historical encyclopedia, published on its institutional archives platform, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable institutional denominational history sources, used here for the 1888 Minneapolis session's dates, participants and reception, corroborated by George R. Knight's academic monograph on the same controversy. NotesUsed for the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference session's dates, participants and the church's own account of the controversy's reception.
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PublisherSeventh-day Adventist Church, Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research
URLhttps://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=B9CB
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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