Midterm Flashcards
Who founded the Methodist Church?
John Wesley
When was John Wesley Ordained?
1728
What church was John Wesley Ordained into?
Church of England
What is Wesley’s 1st paradox?
Define sovereignty and human freedom
- God sovereign, human are free to choose
What is Wesley’s 2nd paradox?
Wesley emphasized doctrine and experience
What is Wesley’s 3rd paradox?
Paradox of doctrine of experience and structure and structure, says “you have to have both”
- Structure designed to produce Christians who are about moral value
What is Wesley’s 4th paradox?
Charismatic and institution
What is Wesley’s 5th paradox?
Was able to keep together the present and future of salvation.
What is the Aldersgate Experience?
May 24, 1738 went to a reading of ML preface to the Epistle of the Romans and had a conversion experience.
In what year did Wesley die?
1791
What are the 3 tiers of the Methodist societies?
Class, Band, and Select Society
Break down class, band, and select society in the tired of the Methodist societies.
Class = 12 People. “How is your souls?”
Band = 6 People. Christians who confessed to each other
Select Society = 2 People. Complete Confidentiality
What is two things that Methodist find very important in their church?
Experience and Conversion is important.
Name the four schools of prophetic interpretation?
Amilienial/ Allegorical
Pederast
Futurist
Hisoricist
Break down Amilienial one of the four schools of prophetic interpretation.
- New birth of the soul
- 1000 years represents reign of the Catholic Church
Break down Pederast one of the four schools of prophetic interpretation.
- Everything happens in the past 100 years
- Beast in Rome and not the Papacy
Break down Futurist one of the four schools of prophetic interpretation.
- Everything would happen in the future
- 1000 years has not yet come
Break down Historicist one of the four schools of prophetic interpretation.
- Believed in a future 1000 years
- World would be perfected then Jesus would come and rule the world that the church perfected.
Did Miller teach the Jesus was going to return on October 22, 1843?
No, He set a time- period of sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844
What is the connection between the vision in Dan. 8 and the angelic visit in Dan. 9?
- Revolve around the sanctuary
2 .Refer to Christ and the Antichrist in war over the Sanctuary - Begin with the time of Medo-Persia
- Conclude with judgment on the Antichrist at the end of time.
- Both point to the bringing in of everlasting righteousness
A.F Ballenger
Holy Flesh Movement and thought that nothing was special about 1844
A.G. Daniells
GC President from 1901-1922 (WWI)
- Battle Creek to Washington D.C
- Kellogg Crisis
Golden Age of Adventist Missions
A.G. Daniell’s vision for an educated ministry
Daniels saw that educating ministers was necessary.
- Ministry Magazine
- Bible Conferences which lead to Seminary
Anna Phillips
Girl who was also receiving testimonies that she wished to share with the church and was another possible special messenger other than Ellen White.
Charles M. Kinney
African American evangelist that spoke against racism in St. Louis. He was also the first ordained pastor of African American descent.
Desmond Doss
Contentious cooperator who was a medic saved 75 people in a WWII battle.
Won the congressional medal of honor
D.M Canright
Adventist preacher who left and returned to the ministry four times. The last 30 years of his life were spent campaigning to discredit Adventism and E. G. White.
E.A Sutherland
One of the founders for Madison College
Edson White’s involvement in the Southern Work
African-Americans in the South and started “The Gospel Primer” that was targeted at African Americans in the South.
Fernando and Anna Stahl and the work in Peru
The Stahls started building schools and clinics in Peru in the early 1900s. They helped to bring membership in the area into the several thousands.
F.H Westphal
Began SDA efforts in Argentina
Flora Plummer
Profoundly affected the Sabbath Schools around the world
Involved in this work for 3 1/2 decades
Men didn’t have a problem with her leadership
George McCready Price
Influential Adventist who founded the idea of the flood being a result of geological layers (creation science)
Influenced Evangelical Christians
G. I Butler
fifth president of the Seventh-day Adventist church; converted by J. N. Andrews; ordained in 1867; debated with Waggoner over “the two laws in Galatians” in 1866
Harry Miller
One of the first official church workers in China. Known as the “China Doctor.” He did more than medical work, venturing into publishing, education, and church administration.
H.M.S Richards
First Adventist Radio broadcaster. Voice heard all around the world for Adventist Radio
Goodloe Harper Bell
The first teacher of the first Adventist school, co-founder of the Adventist school system
James K. Humphrey
Native of Jamaica
- J.H Carrol and Black Adventist layman brought him into the church
- Founded the 1st Harlem SDA Church
- Black Colony on the New Jersey coast
- 1930 Harlem was dropped from the SDA Church
J.G Matteson
Danish missionary who ended up at Union College
J.N Andrews
First official Adventist missionary outside of the United States.
John Harvey Kellogg
American Medical Missionary College
- Control of Battle Creek Sanitarium
- Views of a Pantheistic slant but accused of the ideas
- Invented cornflakes and advocate the health reform
John Tay
A North American layman, who spent the last six years of his life in mission service among the Pacific islands –including pioneer work on Pitcairn Island.
Joseph Bates and the beginning of health reforms
Joseph Bates, had discovered the value of altered habits in promoting better health during his Millerite days. It was during his time at sea that he began to abandon practices that were harmful to his health and his morality.
Margaret Rowen
Claimed she was God’s new prophet after EGW’s death. Made up fake predictions; when her lies were brought to light, she attempted to murder a former follower and was sent to prison.
L.R Conradi
Known as one of the most influential Adventist and evangelist missionaries
Merritt Kellogg
First Adventist in California who was a half brother of J.H Kellogg.
Moses Hull
An evangelist who at first preached against spiritualism but eventually left Adventism and joined the spiritualism movement himself.
O. A. Olsen
General conference President during the financial problems of the 1890s.
Percy Magan
Founder along with Sutherland of Madison College
Robert Brinsmead
Known for teaching a new type of perfectionism and criticizing the church’s “papal errors” in the 60s. Changes his theological views every decade.
R.W Folkenberg
A GC president who ended up resigning because of “dubious judgment” in business matters. He had been a major promoter of Global Mission.
Walter Rea and Ellen White’s use of sources
Adventist scholars showed that EGW relied on many more sources than most church members are aware of. Former minister Rea published The White Lie, accusing EGW of being a fraud because she didn’t write her own material.
W.A Spicer
President from 1922-1930
Stepped down only because he felt a younger man could do more in his place
Frugal, stayed up all night on a train to save money, instead of paying more for a sleeping birth
Snacked on a bag of peanuts all day instead of eating regular meals
Took scare necessities to isolated missionaries and small gifts to their children
W.W Prescott
First president of Union College and Walla Walla University; he helped choose the land that Union is on.
Otsego Vision
Ellen White had a vision at Otsego, Michigan that was in regards to Health Reform. Being temperate was more than just giving up alcohol; it also extended to working, eating well, consuming pure and soft water and also a meatless diet. She noted it was a sacred duty to attend to our health and arouse others to their duty. The vision at Otsego, was also directed to the Whites to change their health habits.
