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Untold Story of the Bible Commentary Untold Story of the Bible Commentary "The Baptism'!-..A Short Story Historical Case for Ordaining Women Journal of the Association of Adventist Forums Volume 16, Number 3 The Scope of Ellen White's Authority Against Canonization A Defense of Compilations Apology for Ellen White as Historian SPECTRUM Editorial Board Consulting Editors Edward Lugenbeal Roy Branson Earl W. Amundson Anthropology Editor Ethics. Kennedy Institute President Kettering. Ohio Georgetown University Atlantic Union Conference Roy Branson Margaret McFarland Molleurns Couperus Eric Anderson Attorney Physician History Washington. D.C. .Associate Editor Angwin. California Pacific Union College LaVonne Neff Charles Scriven Gene Daffern Roy Benton Publishing Physician Chairman, Mathematics Department Downers Grove. Illinois Senior Editor Washington. D.C. Columbia Union College . Ronald Numbers Tom Dybdahl Bonnie· Dwyer Bonnie Casey History of Medicine Journalism Writer/Editor University of Wisconsin Loma Linda. eallfornia Washington. D.C. News Editor Gary Patterson Tom DybdahI George Colvin President Bonnie Dwyer Editor Government Georgia-Cumberland Conference Allentown. Pennsylvania Claremont Graduate School Edward E. Robinson Manuscript Editor Richard Emmerson Raymond Cottrell Attorney Gene Daffern English Theology Chicago. ·Illinois Walla Walla College Lorna Linda. California Gerhard Svrcek-SeUer Book Review Editors .Alvin L. Kwiram Geri Fuller Psychiatrist Chairman. Chemistry Department Public Relations Vienna, Austria Peggy Corbett University of Washington Washington. D.C. Carolyn Stevens Shultz Rennie Schoepflin Gary Land Lawrence Geraty English History President Walla Walla College Andrews University Atlantic Union College Editorial Associate Helen Ward Thompson Rennie Schoepflin Fritz Guy Vice-President Diane Gainer History Theology Lorna Linda University Lorna Linda Unversity Lorna Linda University L.E. Trader Charles SCriven F.E.J. Harder Education Theology Educational Administration Marienhoehe Gymnasium Walla Walla College College Place. Washington West Germany Ottilie Stafford Jorgen Henriksen Louis Venden English Artist Pastor Atlantic Union College BOston, Massachusetts Lorna Linda University Church Association of Adventist Forums Officers Directors Regional Representatives Northern Pacific f John Brunt President Of Chapter Development Atlantic Chairman. School of Theology Lyndrey A. Niles Walter Douglas John Hamer Walla Walla College Communications Church History Business Southern Howard University Aridrews University Hudson, Massachusetts T. 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Michigan SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage Editorial Correspondence: SPECTRUM is published by Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of the Association of Adventist Forums. Direct all editorial contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look correspondence to SPECTRUM, 7710 Carroll Avenue, without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. ManUSCripts should be merits of diverse views, and to foster Christian intellectual typewritten, double spaced and in matters of style and and cultural growth. Although effort is made to ensure documentation, conform to A Manual of Style (University accurate scholarship and discriminating judgment, the of Chicago Press). Submit the original and two copies, statements of fact are the responsibility of contributors, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Responses and the views individual authors express are not necessarily from readers may be shortened before publication. those of the editorial staff as a whole or as individuals. Subscription Information: In order to receive SPEC­ The Association of Adventist Forums is a nonsubsidized, TRUM, send a membership fee ($20 per 5 issues, except. nonprofit organization for which gifts are deductible in the $25 in Canada and in other foreign countries; $2 less for report of income for purposes of taxation. The publishing students) to Association of Adventist Forums, Box 5330, of SPECTRUM depends on subSCriptions, gifts from Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. Phone: (301) 270-0423. Sin­ individuals and the voluntary efforts of the contributors gle copies may be purchased for $4. Pay by check made and the staff. out to the Association of Adventist Forums. For address changes, send old address label along with the new address. © 1985 All rights reserved. Litho USA In This Issue Vol. 16, No.3, August 1985 Special Section: New Views of Ellen White The Scope of Ellen White's Authority Donald R. McAdams 2 Formative Authority, Yes; Canonization, No Herold Weiss 8 In Defense of Compilations Arthur L. White 14 A Vindication of Ellen White as Historian Jean Zurcher 21 Short Story The Baptism Bonnie L. Casey 32 Articles The Untold Story of the Bible Commentary Raymond F. Cottrell 35 The Adventist Heritage Calls for Ordination of Women Bert Haloviak 52 Responses in Great Controversy describing the Wal­ About This Issue denses and Albigenses. Donald McAdams and Herold Weiss have written on Ellen White before. Here they or 15 years studies have ap­ break new ground, going beyond the details F peared in this journal and else­ of Ellen White's sources and methods of where examining the sources of Ellen composition to explore her role in the future White's writings and her methods of com­ of the Adventist Church. Both essays con­ position. (For an overview see Donald clude that she will continue to have author­ McAdams' "Shifting Views of Inspiration: ity in the church, but in a new way. Ellen G. White Studies in the 1970s, '" Spec­ Elsewhere in this issue, Bert Haloviak rev­ trum, Vol. 10, No.4, pp. 27-41, and notes eals that women have served as licensed to his article in this issue.) Although we have ministers since the early days of the Adven­ not published materials on Ellen White for tist denomination. Ray Cottrell, from his some time, we are pleased to present in this uniquely well-informed position as associ­ issue diverse views of Ellen White and her ate editor, reveals for the first time the role in the church by a group of distin­ authors of the articles in the SDA Bible Com­ guished Adventist authors. mentary. Bonnie Casey reminds us of those Two of the four essays are by trustees of times when symbols, such as baptism, have the Ellen G. White Estate: Arthur White shocked us with an encounter with the explains that the White Estate's publication divine. Finally, our readers continue cogent of compilations was a continuation of Ellen conversations about important challenges White's own practice, and Jean Zurcher facing the church. defends the accuracy of historical passages - The Editors Special Section: New Views of Ellen White The Scope of Ellen White's Authority by Donald R. McAdams he Adventist dilemma in 1985 cussed widely among educated Adventists T over the authority of Ellen throughout the North American Division. White is not new. It also confronted those As in 1919, the central question today for in her day who accepted her spiritual gift. Adventists who believe Ellen White was The 1919 Bible Conference transcripts make inspired is this: If we accept that she took that clear. The college Bible teachers, editors much material from others and often made and General Conference administrators mistakes, what authority should we grant to present at the 1919 meetings had personal her words? knowledge of Ellen White's unique spiritual Note that it is Ellen White's authority, not gift. They also knew that Ellen White copied her inspiration, that is being questioned. from other sources and made statements Most of the researchers of the 1970s were that were not correct-in short, that her thoroughly committed Adventists who works were not entirely original and that showed that using the words of others did they were not infallible. An inspired, yet not detract from Ellen White's claim to fallible, prophet was-and still is-the inspiration. Like the men of 1919, most dilemma for Adventists. l informed Adventists today see no need to But the debate about Ellen White's author­ debate whether or not she was inspired. Her ity in the 1980s is not a private discussion inspiration cannot be proved or disproved. confined to church leaders; it is open to the The decision to believe is one of faith, entire church. The publicity given to the alle­ informed by facts. gations of Walter Rea, the basic nondenial But for many who accept the inspiration of his charges by the church's official pub­ of Ellen White, there is still a question about lications and spokesmen, 2 and the publica­ her authority. The discussion about Ellen
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