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Ellen White's Integrative Themes Ellen White’s Integrative Themes Ellen G. White Copyright © 2018 Ellen G. White Estate, Inc. Information about this Book Overview This eBook is provided by the Ellen G. White Estate. It is included in the larger free Online Books collection on the Ellen G. White Estate Web site. About the Author Ellen G. White (1827-1915) is considered the most widely translated American author, her works having been published in more than 160 languages. She wrote more than 100,000 pages on a wide variety of spiritual and practical topics. Guided by the Holy Spirit, she exalted Jesus and pointed to the Scriptures as the basis of one’s faith. Further Links A Brief Biography of Ellen G. White About the Ellen G. White Estate End User License Agreement The viewing, printing or downloading of this book grants you only a limited, nonexclusive and nontransferable license for use solely by you for your own personal use. This license does not permit republication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparation of derivative works, or other use. Any unauthorized use of this book terminates the license granted hereby. Further Information For more information about the author, publishers, or how you can support this service, please contact the Ellen G. White Estate at [email protected]. We are thankful for your interest and feedback and wish you God’s blessing as you read. i ii Excerpt from George R. Knight, Meeting Ellen White (Hagerstown, Md.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1996), pp. 109-127. For a key to the abbreviations used as references, see the list at the end of this document. Contents Information about this Book . .i Chapter 6—An Examination of Ellen White’s Major Themes . .v The Love Of God . .v The Great Controversy . vii Jesus, The Cross, And Salvation Through Him . ix The Centrality Of The Bible . xi The Second Coming . xiii The Third Angel’s Message And Adventist Mission . xv Practical Christianity And The Development Of Christian Character . xviii Abbreviations Used in References to Ellen G. White’s Writings . xxii iv Chapter 6—An Examination of Ellen White’s Major Themes We have come a long way in our journey with Ellen White in this book. First we examined her long life. We then looked at the work of the Ellen G. White Estate since her death and examined her various writings. Now we are ready for the final phase of our introduction to Mrs. White. In this chapter we will examine seven major themes that run throughout her writings. They represent ideas that help us understand her theology and her burden for individuals and the church. Also they integrate the various strands of her thinking into a unified network of concepts that provide an interpretive framework for not only single documents but for entire sectors of her writings (such as health, education, and family living). The following seven themes are not the only ones that we could have chosen, but they do seem to be among her most basic, and they are certainly prominent throughout her works. As a result, these seven themes offer integrative and interpretive insight into Ellen White’s writings that will help us read her with better understanding. The Love Of God Perhaps the central and most comprehensive theme in the writings of Ellen White is that of the love of God. Why do we [110] begin with this theme? The answer is that it is the one she repeatedly treats first and foremost in her major books. A few illustrations of that point will help us grasp the theme’s crucial place in her thought. One of the most forceful illustrations of the centrality of God’s love in Ellen White’s writings is that the phrase “God is love” pro- vides the first three words in the first volume of the Conflict ofthe Ages Series (Patriarchs and Prophets) and the last three words of the series’ final volume (The Great Controversy). v vi Ellen White’s Integrative Themes Why is that so? Because, as we shall see below, the fact of God’s lovingness is the central point of the great struggle between good and evil, as portrayed by Mrs. White. As a result, she emphasizes God’s love at every opportunity. “God is love” is the phrase that provides the context for her telling of the massive great controversy story. Another significant illustration of the centrality of the theme of God’s love to Ellen White’s writings is that a discussion of that all-important topic provides the content for the first chapter of Steps to Christ. The book’s opening words are “Nature and revelation alike testify of God’s love.”—Steps to Christ, 9 Mrs. White goes on to point out how the natural world “speaks to us of the Creator’s love” and that even in a world of sin the message of God’s love shines through. After all, “there are flowers upon the thistles, and the thorns are covered with roses. ‘God is love’ is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass.”—Steps to Christ, 9, 10 Yet, she points out, the things of nature in a world of sin “but imperfectly represent His love.” The supreme and clearest illustration of God’s love for us, she emphasizes, is God’s sending Jesus to save us from our sins.—Steps to Christ, 10-13. The chapter closes with the following underlining of the central theme of the book. “Such love [as God had for us in providing for our salvation in Jesus] is without parallel. Children of the heavenly King! Precious promise! Theme for the most profound meditation! [111] The matchless love of God for a world that did not love Him! The thought has a subduing power upon the soul and brings the mind into captivity to the will of God. The more we study the divine character in the light of the cross, the more we see mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness blended with equity and justice, and the more clearly we discern innumerable evidences of a love that is infinite and a tender pity surpassing a mother’s yearning sympathy for her wayward child.”—Steps to Christ, 15 A third powerful illustration of God’s love as being the central theme of Ellen White occurs in the opening pages of The Desire of Ages. Jesus, she points out in the book’s first paragraph, “came to reveal the light of God’s love” (The Desire of Ages, 19). On the next page she writes that Jesus’ life demonstrated “that the law of Examination of Ellen White’s Major Themes vii self-renouncing love is the law of life for earth and heaven; that the love which ‘seeketh not her own’ has its source in the heart of God” (The Desire of Ages, 20). Her conclusion on the final page is that through Christ “love has conquered.”—The Desire of Ages, 835 The love of God is uplifted first, last, and all through Ellen White’s writings. She repeatedly treats it first and last in her most important books, and it provides the beginning and ending words for her treatment of the Conflict of the Ages, with more than 3,500 pages in between. It appears to be the theme that undergirds and provides the context for all other themes in her writings. The Great Controversy A second integrating theme that runs throughout her work is that of the great controversy, or struggle, between Christ and Satan. It builds upon the theme of God’s love. Mrs. White emphasizes repeatedly that the focal point of the great controversy is Satan’s aim to misrepresent the loving character of God. Thus in the first chapter of Steps to Christ we read that Satan has worked to get people to fear God as a being who is “severe and unforgiving. Satan led men to conceive of God as a being whose chief attribute is stern justice—one who is a severe judge, a harsh, exacting creditor. He pictured the Creator as a being who is watching with jealous eye to discern the errors and mistakes of men, that He may visit judgments upon them.”—Steps to Christ, 11 According to Ellen White, the core of the controversy has ex- [112] tended beyond Satan’s attempt to misrepresent God’s character to a deliberate distortion of His law. Thus we read in the early pages of The Desire of Ages that “Satan represents God’s law of love as a law of selfishness. He declares that it is impossible for us toobey its precepts” (The Desire of Ages, 24). Again, she writes in The Great Controversy: “From the very beginning of the great contro- versy in heaven it has been Satan’s purpose to overthrow the law of God.”—The Great Controversy, 582 Of course, in the thinking of Ellen White the character of God and the principle undergirding the law of God are not two elements but one. God’s character is one of love, as is the principle at the viii Ellen White’s Integrative Themes heart of His law. Thus Satan’s intent in the great controversy is to discredit God’s love in its several manifestations. It is that attempt at misrepresentation that God has had to fight against. Ellen White sets the stage for her treatment of God’s reaction to Satan on the opening page of Patriarchs and Prophets, when she writes that “the history of the great conflict between good and evil, from the time it first began in heaven to the final overthrow of rebellion and the total eradication of sin, is also a demonstration of God’s unchanging love.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 33 God’s demonstration of His love in the ongoing conflict with Sa- tan forms the focus, as we noted earlier, of the five-volume Conflict of the Ages Series.
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