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Valentine, Gilbert M. Ostriches and Canaries: Coping With change In Adventism, 1966-1979. Oak & Acorn Publishing, 2022, 456 pages.

NOTE:   Oak & Acorn Publishing is owned by the Pacific Union Conference and publishes books.

This book is of great value in understanding how some of the divisive doctrinal issues arose in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.  The Table of Contents is listed below:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Adventism and Textual Authority

Chapter 2: The Expanding Challenge to Adventist Fundamentalism

Chapter 3:  A Tale of two Presidents

Chapter 4: Early Skirmishes Over Neo-Adventism--1966

Chapter 5: The Swelling Tide of Perceived Liberalism--1967

Chapter 6: Suspicion & Casualties at Avondale & Andrews--1968

Chapter 7: Survivors in California, Resignations in Michigan--1969

Chapter 8: Intellectuals in the Church & a New Kind of College Student

Chapter 9: Preserving Fundamentalism—controlling Bible Study

Chapter 10: Reclaiming Control of the GRI and Loma Linda

Chapter 11: Press Stories on the Age of the Earth Complicate Life

Chapter 12: A Fall From the Pedestal—Challenges to Ellen White in the 1970s

Chapter 13: “The Quinquennium of the Ostrich”

Conclusion

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

 

Gregory

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