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This page is both a record of my contributions to Wikipedia , and also a sandbox for future editing (see below).

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[edit] Paper world contributions

  • Published paper "Euler Characteristic in Odd Dimensions" with Guyan Robertson in the Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 30:4 (September 2003), p. 195–99 in which we gave an "elementary" proof of an existing result. (As of May 2007, it is not yet available from the archives)
  • Letter to the editor in April 7, 2007 Record, p.13 which they entitled "Adventist breadth". A quote from the letter also appears in large print in the middle of the page! One friend told me he read it, appreciated it, then visited ProgressiveAdventism.com and bookmarked it! Others said they saw it, but either couldn't remember enough about it to comment, or didn't understand it. I was replying to the interview "Looking at Adventism" of Keith Lockhart (co-author of Seeking a Sanctuary), by Julius Nam in the Record, March 17, 2007, p.8–9
A friend from Avondale College told me he read the letter which inspired him to visit the webpage and was sufficiently impressed to bookmark it!

Clinton told me on my old MySpace account (now deleted): Subject: Letter to Record. Body: "Good letter to the Record. Well done. Have a great day." 07 Apr 2007, 01:37 PM

  • Another article mentions me - "Avondale students help church grow", Record October 14, 2006, p.3

I've randomly been on TV a few minor times as part of a background shot, or written up in the local newspaper a couple of times, etc.

[edit] Contributions to Wikipedia

"I discovered the progressive adventist Wikipedia entry today and was blown away. I had no idea there was a “name” for Adventists who believe everything from the “Moral Influence Theory” to “old earth” creationism to non-traditional views of Ellen White. And now I find this blog and even the writer of the Wikipedia entry. This is too much for one day!..." -Pamela Maize Harris, May 21, 2007[1] "this blog" refers to ProgressiveAdventism.com

My friend Jono Weslake told me on Saturday 16th July that he discovered the progressive Adventist article and appreciated many aspects of it! As of that date it was edited almost solely by myself.

[edit] Articles Created

  1. Hillsong Conference
  2. Hillsong Conference 2006
  3. 28 Fundamentals
  4. Remnant (Adventist)
  5. The Great Controversy (book). Much reworking of Great Controversy as well.
  6. Adventist baptismal vow
  7. Inspiration of Ellen White
  8. Progressive Adventist
  9. Adventist Today
  10. Day-year principle
  11. Biblical Research Institute
  12. Adventist Theological Society
  13. Spirit of Prophecy (Adventist) stub
  14. List of Ellen White writings
  15. Ellen G. White Estate
  16. List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
  17. Journal of the Adventist Theological Society stub
  18. Spectrum (magazine) (actually, my computer crashed after I had written much of it, but before saving it. Ansell ended up creating it, doing a good job, and I expanded it)
  19. Association of Adventist Forums
  20. Pre-advent judgment stub
  21. Alden Thompson
  22. Teachings of Ellen White stub
  23. Jon Paulien
  24. George R. Knight stub
  25. Jombok Hoas stub
  26. Wat Preah Yesu
  27. Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary stub
  28. Wingen, New South Wales
  29. Dale Ratzlaff
  30. Robert H. Pierson, reworked from POV material in the Last Generation Theology article
  31. General Conference Session
  32. South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists virtually rewritten
  33. Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
  34. Christian anthropology
  35. Theological anthropology stub
  36. Heavenly sanctuary. Actually, technically Tonicthebrown beat me to it - I was writing it but he saved his copy first! I expanded and reworked it significantly.
  37. Samuele Bacchiocchi
  38. Robert Brinsmead
  39. Richard Rice
  40. Julius Nam
  41. Sabbath in Seventh-day Adventism
  42. Raymond Cottrell
  43. Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
  44. John F. Ashton
  45. A Very Special Person
  46. Ángel Manuel Rodríguez (good stub)
  47. Arthur Patrick
  48. Colin Standish (good stub) Russell R. Standish (rewrote) Woodrow Whidden (stub)
  49. Record (magazine)
  50. Nathan Brown (writer)
  51. Ministry (magazine)
  52. Red Books
  53. Biblical law in Christianity
  54. W. W. Prescott (good stub)
  55. Biblical law in Seventh-day Adventism (stub currently)
  56. Fritz Guy stub
  57. Norm Young stub
  58. Newbold College stub
  59. Edward Heppenstall stub
  60. Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture
  61. Valuegenesis
  62. Adventist studies
  63. Seventh-day Adventist interfaith relations
  64. Glacier View controversy
  65. Remnant (Bible)
  66. Seventh-day Adventist education
  67. Donald Barnhouse stub
  68. Eternity (magazine)
  69. Adventist Currents
  70. Evangelica
  71. Standish brothers
  72. Glacier View Ranch stub
  73. Seeking a Sanctuary
  74. Walter T. Rea
  75. Present Truth Magazine
  76. Hans LaRondelle
  77. Generation of Youth for Christ
  78. Hope International (Seventh-day Adventist)
  79. Pacific Union Recorder
  80. Clifford Goldstein
  81. Charismatic Adventism
  82. George Vandeman
  83. Morris Venden
  84. Geoffrey Paxton, an Australian Anglican who has interacted with Adventists

plus others, or other articles with major contributions such as Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seventh-day Adventist theology and Ellen White.

I have also created much of the category structure for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, plus categories for other topics. I have also created dozens of disambiguation pages, and uploaded some images.

[edit] Templates (nontrivial)

[edit] Investigation into spread through Wikipedia

Spread of CSDA in Wikipedia articles.

[edit] Main Interests

I am interested in pages related to Christianity, particularly Seventh-day Adventism. I have also made a number of edits to other random pages. I might create a few maths stubs (that's "math" if you are American) when I get the chance.

[edit] To Read

Interesting looking articles I would like to read:

[edit] Sandbox

[edit] Other

  • Ford said, "Having researched the stacks of the Library of Congress, I know that most writers in theology, medicine, history, science, etc. of the Nineteenth Century used other authors freely without giving them credit. In addition, the expression, "I was shown," was commonplace among religious writers of Ellen White's day. That phrase did not always or necessarily mean revelation by vision. For example, the famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, according to its author, came story by story to the writer in a dream. This religious phenomenon was not at all uncommon in the 1800s."[1]
  • "For varying views expressed by knowledgeable evangelical scholars on Seventh-day Adventism, see Philip Johnson, “Apologetics, Mission and New Religious Movements: A Holistic Approach (Part Two),” Sacred Tribes Journal of Christian Missions to New Religious Movements, Summer/Fall 2002, http://www.sacredtribes.com/issue1/apolog2.htm; James Bjornstad, “Seventh-day Adventism,” Ankerberg

Theological Research Institute, http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/apologetics/AP1W0999.pdf (accessed August 4, 2007)." from Kenneth Samples' paper.

  • Ford mentioned an article in the Adventist Review appearing a few years after the Glacier View controversy which claimed Adventists are a fiercely Protestant people, who relish the spirit of enquiry.
  • Also said there was a series of Neufeld article in the Review about the IJ, and how it was only derived 13 years after 1844, in the 1950s.
  • "The Friendly Isles of Tonga", National Geographic, March 1968, p. 358. Tongan Adventists hold church gatherings on Sunday.
  • New faces arrive at PUC. Pacific Union Recorder 2003, v103, Sep, p5 re: Nam
  • Nam, Julius. "Adventism in present communal progressive". Adventist Today 2007, v15, Sep-Oct, p8-qo
  • Lee, Julie Z. "How a dream come true is leading the Asian-American community". Pacific Union Recorder 2002, v102, Dec, p11-12
  • McLarty, John Thomas. "Intellectual Adventism". Adventist Today 2006, v14, Mar-Apr, p18-20

News from user page:

September: Home now. Europe was the best ever! Met so many fascinating and inspiring people and made great new friends. I even managed to create a few articles and stay up to date with my Wikipedia editing! Er, who really wants to Prague etc. anyway, when you could be looking at a computer screen... (?!!) (Will delete this news soon, as it is not a blog!)

August 2007: We are in Greece, and the fires are the worst ever here. News reports are in Greek so we don't understand much, but I could translate a little, e.g. 17 nekroi meaning 17 dead, at an earlier stage.

News: July–September 2007: I'm on a three month trip through Europe with my brother James, and so will have a lesser presence on the web, however I will still try to regularly feed my addiction :-) Subscribe to our blog at james.maclaurin.id.au/blog.

News: I'm safe after the massive storms. Electric power has been off at Avondale College from about 1am Friday night until Wednesday (I think). The place practically shut down, they encouraged on-campus students to leave if they had somewhere else to go, and there may be special consideration for the soon-coming exams. The huge 225m ship Pasha Bulker is grounded on a reef at Nobby's beach in Newcastle, New South Wales (Newcastle's famous landmark beach).

Also, I was on TV! Channel Ten news local weather report with Tim Bailey, just after 5:30pm on Wednesday 13th June 2007. It was in front of the surf lifesaving club building (?) on the South end of Nobby's beach, with the beached ship in the background. I SMSed about 20 friends, and two even replied live, during the taping, to tell me that they could see me and that I was even center screen! I checked the SMSes as they came in – thanks Zoe and Will. I am the tall guy with (temporarily, then) a short beard.

[edit] Progressive Adventism template

Media: Spectrum, Adventist Today, Adventist Heritage, Present Truth Magazine/Verdict, Good News Unlimited and its magazine also Evangelica, Adventist Currents.

People: Edward Heppenstall, Hans LaRondelle, Raymond Cottrell, Desmond Ford, Robert Brinsmead (What about: Prescott, Daniells, White, etc.? Need citations. Norm Young?)

Places of learning: West Coast Religion Teachers, Loma Linda University, Walla Walla College, Pacific Union College, La Sierra University (need to cite all these!)

History: Questions on Doctrine, Glacier View controversy,

[edit] Random

  • "The Intellectual World of Adventist Theologians" (Still need to add details to specific articles on each doctrine, although other material has been added)

Working on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church/Assessment page: (commented out)


Write article on: Seventh-day Adventist culture, habits, customs, practices, lifestyle

This is for stuff I am planning to add to articles:

[edit] Sabbath

  • Spectrum blog on new Sabbath books by Adventist pastors
  • Marva J. Dawn keeps a whole day as a Sabbath. The Sense of the Call, p.313-14 has a list of recommended resources. See also her Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting, which emphasizes those four themes. She does not argue for a specific day of the week, only a complete 24-hour period, unlike those who insist on either Saturday or Sunday.(55,56) However "corporate worship" is "an essential part of God's Sabbath reclamation." (The Sense of the Call, 55). "How Can We Do It?", 69-71; hints on keeping a Sabbath.
  • see "Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, III:4, pp. 49, 57. Indeed, Barth goes so far as to claim that "the Sabbath commandment explains all the other commandments, or all the other forms of the one commandment. It is thus to be placed at the head." He quotes De Quervain approvingly: " ?Where the holy day becomes a day of man, society and humanity wither away and the demons rule?? " (Church Dogmatics, III: p. 53." (cited in Des Ford)
  • Merge content from Talk:Sabbatarianism, Ten Commandments#Sabbath day and Christian Torah-submission#Late History
  • historical groups of Sabbath keepers from bible-sabbath.com. Dubious source, but could be useful as a pointer for more accepted research. See also other links at http://www.bible-sabbath.com
  • Google Sabbath directory
  • http://www.biblestudy.org/godsrest/main.html - some articles are written by Bacchiocchi
  • Book Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller [6]
  • Book Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom In The Rhythms Of Rest by Lynne M. Baab [7]
  • Book Five Views on Law and Gospel [8]
  • Hans Küng, rebellious Catholic respected theologian (respects Judaism much more highly than most Christians, different views on law, etc.)
  • Book A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath by Christopher D. Ringwald [9]

Since E. P. Sanders' groundbreaking book in the late 1970s, Christian views on the law have exploded in theological circles!

  • Robert Leo Odom - Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity
  • Robert Leo Odom - (lord's day?) on a Round World
  • David Bird - Sabbath Challenge, Sabbath Delight
  • Weiss - A Day of God's Gladness
  • Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson [10] fairly high ranking in sales on Amazon.com
  • The Law, the Sabbath and New Covenant Christianity by Anthony Buzzard (Paperback - April 21, 2005)[11]

Encylopedias and Bible dictionaries:

  • Theological Dictionary of the New Testament; possibly VI:1

Journals:

[edit] Eschatology

Improve page based on my suggested sources at Talk:Seventh-day_Adventist_eschatology#Sources.

  • [14] Jon Dybdahl article on Remnant

[edit] Students of F. F. Bruce

(If I can find enough, I might create a category). There may be extra names from:

  • W. Ward Gasque & Ralph P. Martin (eds). Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays Presented to F. F. Bruce on his 60th Birthday. Exeter: Paternoster/Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1970. ISBN 0-85364-098-X
  • D.A. Hagner & M.J.Harris (eds). Pauline Studies: Essays Presented to F. F. Bruce. Exeter: Paternoster/Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1980. ISBN 0-8028-3531-7

People: Desmond Ford, Norman Young, Clark Pinnock, Moisés Silva

[edit] Law in Christianity

(Main article branch from Old Testament. Read it thoroughly. Scholarly views underrepresented, I believe.) Popular views relevant and important POV for the article, but there is too much emphasis on a Lutheran/Dispensational view. Ten Commandments.

[edit] Terms

Some are used pejoratively...

[edit] New Testament concepts

The Law of Christ

[edit] Christian views

E. P. Sanders' book represented a "tilt" in scholarly attitudes, towards more positive views toward the law. Prior to this, the general consensus was that of F. F. Bruce. N. T. Wright,

On a popular level, dispensational, Lutheran (find out more about Calvin...) views are probably more common.

[edit] See also

[edit] Other

This template was deleted: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 February 21#Template:Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White
Writings
Legacy
White Estate · Seventh-day Adventist: Church · Theology
Family
Husband: James White · Children: Willie · James Edson

Category:WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church White, Ellen G.


Check out book Issues: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Certain Private Ministries mentioned in LGT article.

[edit] Sourcing Adventist theology proposal draft: Second attempt

My previous proposal was very wordy. I would like to offer a second, simpler attempt, returning to the original motivations for presenting it. I have tried to incorporate Tonicthebrown's comments which were very helpful, and also helped to clarify my own language. Several months of thought have gone into this :). Colin MacLaurin 16:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Motivation. Until [edit] in December 2006, the article Seventh-day Adventist theology contained a statement:

"Adventists are sharply divided over whether Jesus Christ took on a fallen or an unfallen nature in the Incarnation."

Some supporting scholars and some disagreeing scholars were listed; an equal number of each. Articles from the Biblical Research Institute (BRI) support both positions.

All this would seem to imply that Adventists are divided fairly evenly over the issue. Isn't the BRI official, one might ask? In fact, this does not characterise the world church fairly.[citation needed]

Some contributors might ask, "What is the church's official position on ... ?" In fact many items do not have an "official" view. Statements voted at the five-yearly General Conference sessions are what is official. Such statements, particularly the 28 Fundamentals, should be given priority, but if there are other significant views they should also be stated and in correct proportion.

Be careful of the point of view (POV) of sources, and work together with other editors to portray a balanced picture representing all major views accurately and in due proportion.

What matters?

  • Scholarly views are very important, and should be cited to support positions (as opposed to Wikipedians inserting their own personal argument and Bible verses, or quoting a non-notable churchmember).
  • However, on average the scholars are more progressive than the world church (Pipim, Receiving the Word), and local churches are arguably the real face of Adventism. Hence what one might encounter in a local church should also be given priority

(Disputes should be resolved by simply citing all the relevant different points of view - e.g. xx traditionally taught,

What would be extremely helpful and NPOV is surveys of church members regarding beliefs, but only some such citations have been discovered so far.

Colin MacLaurin 16:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://progressiveadventism.com/2006/12/06/wikipedia-entry-progressive-adventists/#comment-1297
  2. ^ http://www.ratzlaf.com/currupt.htm

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