Teachings of Ellen White
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Ellen White was one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and a voluminous writer and popular speaker on health and temperance. Her teachings are preserved today through over 50,000 manuscript pages of her writings, and the records of others. She has been very influential in the formation of Adventist theology.
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[edit] Health
Ellen G. White expanded greatly on the subject of health and nutrition, as well as healthy eating and a balanced diet. This was unusual for her day, and a lot of her ideas were very new to people at the time. When Ellen White began speaking and writing about propper nutrition and healthy lifestyles in 1864, the average life expectancy in the United States of America was 32 years of age! Meals were served three, four, and even five times a day, were highly spiced, contained lots of meat, were laden with rich gravies, fried foods, and topped off with a huge amount of pasteries that contained high amounts of sugars and fats. In her Book Counsels on Diet&Foods, she denounces these suicidal eating habbits, and gives counsel on the right foods and in what moderation. She also warns against the use of tobacco, wich was medically excepted in her day.
[edit] Education
White emphasized the importance of education, especially education with a Christian foundation.
[edit] Church organization
[edit] Theology
- Christ-centered, particularly since the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference
- The Great Controversy theme
- Assurance of salvation. Jerry Moon argues that White did teach assurance of salvation.[1]
- "Thought inspiration" of Scripture and inspired authors
