George R. Knight, professor emeritus of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, wrote this academic history of the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference session as the denomination's defining internal argument over righteousness by faith, tracing the roles of Ellet J. Waggoner, Alonzo T. Jones, Ellen G. White, George I. Butler and Uriah Smith, and the controversy's uneven, decades long reception within the church.
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An academic monograph by a credentialed denominational historian, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable scholarly histories authored by an academic specialist even where the publisher is denominational, used here for the 1888 controversy's theological substance and long reception, corroborated by the Adventist Church's own encyclopedia article on the same session. NotesUsed for the theological substance of the righteousness by faith controversy and its reception within Adventism after 1888.
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AuthorGeorge R. Knight
PublisherReview and Herald Publishing Association
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