Social Justice & EGW

[Gregory Matthews]

Regardless of what you think of EGW and the role that she played in the development of the SDA denomination, all must admit that it was a significant role.  A new book, not published by the EGW Estate, is now for sale that addresses the issue of Social Justice in the ministry of EGW.

See:

https://atoday.org/new-book-on-social-justice-as-taught-by-ellen-white/

“White never separated personal salvation from social salvation,” Baldwin observes. Unfortunately, this is a separation that many Adventists make today, including some who say they are zealous to defend White’s teachings.

The papers in this book are all written from a perspective that values “the timelessness of a figure like White.” And it includes chapters comparing her approach to that of Martin Luther King and U.S. President Donald Trump which show how her ideas “take on new hues and pertinence to our twenty-first century world.” (page 12)

Among the chapters are those contributed by Pastor Dan Jackson, president of the denomination’s North American Division; Dr. Calvin Rock, a retired vice president of the denomination’s General Conference; the noted poet and writer, Dr. Ramona Hyman; and historian Dr. Ciro Sepulveda.

Although the Adventist faith and White are a religious figure and a church tradition that have not been sufficiently covered in most of the synoptic histories,” Baldwin concludes. “We need to know far more than we do about White’s life, thought, activism, and legacy.” (page 12) A significant observation by a respected scholar of American religion based at one of America’s major universities. It appears that simply his reading of the papers in this volume provided an important witness on behalf of the Adventist message and movement.

The book was published earlier this year by Pacific Press, the denomination’s official publishing house for North America. You can get a copy from the Adventist Book Center near you or online through amazon.com.