scholarly journals The Center for Adventist Research at Andrews University

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Terry Dwain Robertson ◽  
Merlin D. Burt ◽  
Jim Ford
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Andrews University ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
Branch Office

The Center for Adventist Research (CAR), an Andrews University and General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist organization, seeks to promote an understanding and appreciation of the heritage and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA). It combines the resources of the James White Library’s Adventist Heritage Center and the Ellen G. White Estate Branch Office to provide the most extensive collection of Adventist related resources in the world, both physically and digitally. An introduction to the background, collections, and activities of CAR is presented. Of particular interest are the digitization projects.

The fate of the bird specimens from Cook's voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Medway
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
British Museum ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Collection

Joseph Banks possessed the greater part of the zoological specimens collected on James Cook's three voyages round the world (1768–1780). In early 1792, Banks divided his zoological collection between John Hunter and the British Museum. It is probable that those donations together comprised most of the zoological specimens then in the possession of Banks, including such bird specimens as remained of those that had been collected by himself and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage, and those that had been presented to him from Cook's second and third voyages. The bird specimens included in the Banks donations of 1792 became part of a series of transactions during the succeeding 53 years which involved the British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and William Bullock. It is a great pity that, of the extensive collection of bird specimens from Cook's voyages once possessed by Banks, only two are known with any certainty to survive.

A Look at the Seventh-day Adventist Church:

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Petr Činčala ◽  
René D. Drumm ◽  
Monte Sahlin ◽  
Allison Sauceda
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Leadership Engagement ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Lifestyle Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Christian Denomination

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a worldwide Christian denomination with a rich heritage. Thus, the Adventist Church considers itself to be set apart from the world with a unique mission; members also follow distinctive lifestyle practices. But are Seventh-day Adventists really a unique denomination or are they just a different flavor of mainstream Protestantism? Using data from the FACT 2020 survey and comparing the Adventist sample (N = 313) with the entire interfaith sample (N = 15,278), researchers compared different aspects of church life, including vitality and church growth, local church leadership, engagement in spiritual practices, and engagement in relational spiritual activities. While the data from the FACT 2020 survey present unique strengths of Adventist congregations, weaknesses were also revealed, as compared with the interfaith sample.

scholarly journals Long-Term Storage of Ustilago tritici

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
pp. 1328-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Menzies ◽  
J. Nielsen ◽  
P. L. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Research Centre ◽  
Long Term Storage ◽  
Ustilago Tritici ◽  
The World ◽  
Infected Adult ◽  
Good Technique ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
Term Storage ◽  
Adult Plants

An extensive collection of isolates of Ustilago tritici from around the world is maintained at the Cereal Research Centre. As the collection size increases, however, the time and effort needed to maintain the collection becomes greater, as does the need for a good technique for long term storage of U. tritici. Race T2 of U. tritici was inoculated to spikelets of wheat in February 1976. The matured inoculated heads were thrashed and the seed stored in a desiccator with silica-gel at -15°C. Every 2 years, 60 seeds were removed and planted to determine viability and proportion of infected adult plants. Between 57 and 83% of the seed produced adult plants, and the percent of infected plants ranged between 56 and 98% during the 20 years. There was no significant change in seed germination over time, but there was a positive relationship (P < 0.0664, R2 = 0.452) between the time of storage and the arcsine of the proportion of smutted plants. Storage of U. tritici in infected seed at -15°C and low relative humidity is an efficient method for long-term storage of this fungus.

Revival, Caribbean Style: the Case of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Grenada, 1983–2004

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 388-401
Author(s):  
Keith A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Birth Rate ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
European Origin ◽  
The World ◽  
Former Ussr ◽  
First Time ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
The Church ◽  
Striking Fact

In 1993, commenting on the changing proportion of Christians in the major regions of the world, John V. Taylor (1914–2001), a past General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (1963–74) and later Anglican bishop of Winchester (1975–85), wrote: The most striking fact to emerge … is the speed with which the number of Christian adherents in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has overtaken that of Europe, North America, and the former USSR. For the first time since the seventh century, when there were large Nestorian and Syrian churches in parts of Asia, the majority of Christians in the world are not of European origin Moreover, this swing to the ‘South’ has, it would seem, only just got going, since the birth rate in those regions is at present so much higher than in the developed ‘North’, and lapses from religion are almost negligible compared with Europe. By the middle of the next century, therefore, Christianity as a world religion will patently have its centre of gravity in the Equatorial and Southern latitudes, and every major denomination, except possibly the Orthodox Church, will be bound to regard those areas as its heartlands, and embody that fact in its administration.

scholarly journals Potentials of traditional cash metal coins versus digital contactless payment in the time of coronavirus pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Nemanja Matić ◽  
Boris Siljković ◽  
Marko Savić
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Contactless Method ◽  
Payment Model ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
Savings Bank ◽  
Cash Payment ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Method Of Payment ◽  
Branch Office

This paper addresses the challenges associated to the strength of potential for payment with traditional metal cash and paper money versus a non-cash method of payment in the era of the COVID 19 pandemic in the world and our country. The pandemic served to accelerate the contactless method of payment, because payment without contact is now not only a convenience, but a necessity. Before the pandemic in Europe, cash accounted for close to half of the payments, and in just a few weeks of the COVID 19 pandemic, it fell by 10 percent. Concepts that have so far preferred cash were definitely compromised during the pandemic crisis, and the pandemic is actually the strongest marketing of digital contactless payment methods so far, through the dominant contactless style of money exchange in the world and Europe, as shown in the paper we have today. Some research studies described in the paper in form of the health adventages of mobile wallet payments, as opposed to the proven health-threatening cash and coin-based cash payment model, indicate that the end of the cash era is approaching, being primarily accelerated by the health risk of COVID 19 infection. Particularly interesting is the live study conducted in the area of the northern Kosovo and Metohija, presented in a form of a set of financial services offered by the Postal Savings Bank of the Kosovska Mitrovica branch office, and relation between the contactless and cash payment model, before and after the COVID 19 pandemic. Naturally, all of this is accompanied by significantly limited knowledge related to SARS Cov 2, better known as the current COVID 19 pandemic.

The contribution of Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh naturalist, to the Australian ornithology of Cook's first voyage (1768–1771)

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-286
Author(s):  
David G. Medway
Keyword(s):  
National Library ◽  
James Cook ◽  
Australian Birds ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Collection

Thomas Pennant – Welsh traveller, antiquary, naturalist, and author – visited Joseph Banks in September 1771 shortly after Banks returned from his voyage around the world (1768–1771) with James Cook. It was almost certainly on the occasion of this visit that Pennant was given access to manuscript descriptions of various birds and other animals that had been met with on the voyage, saw the specimens Banks had brought back to England, and was given some of them. Among the Pennant papers in the National Library of Wales is a collection of descriptions in Pennant's handwriting that relate to birds met with by Banks on Cook's voyage. These descriptions may be only part of what was once a more extensive collection in that regard. Of especial interest and importance among them are those of 13 Australian landbird species. Some years later, Pennant must have noticed that John Latham, in his monumental A general synopsis of birds (1781–1785), had not described some species that Pennant possessed specimens or descriptions of, or that Latham's information about some of those he described was deficient in certain respects. Pennant communicated descriptions and notes on those birds to Latham, most notably in relation to several landbirds that had been collected in eastern Australia by Banks in the course of his voyage with Cook. It is apparent from the sources discussed in this paper that Banks took more specimens of Australian birds back to England from the first Cook voyage than has previously been realised. It is a strange quirk of history that, today, more evidence in that regard is available from Pennant, who did not go on the voyage, than from Banks who did.

Ecumenism or Distinctiveness? Seventh-Day Adventist Attitudes to the World Missionary Conference of 1910

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 477-487
Author(s):  
Keith A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

For the Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose doctrines are rooted in eschatological and apocalyptic theology, ecumenism is problematic. While the Church sees itself as one heir of the historic tradition of Christianity and so welcomes recognition as part of the mainstream, it also claims to be the organization through which God proclaims a special message to the modern age. Put simply, sometimes Seventh-day Adventists are happy to be part of the universal Church and at other times they claim to be members of the only true Church. Obviously, the latter, exclusivist attitude is in contradiction to the ethos of the ecumenical movement.

scholarly journals Feeding holy bodies: A study on the social meanings of a vegetarian diet to Seventh-day Adventist church pioneers

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Sánchez ◽  
Ramon Gelabert ◽  
Yasna Badilla ◽  
Carlos Del Valle
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Vegetarian Diet ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Moral Category ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scientific

Ten years ago National Geographic magazine reported that the Loma Linda Seventh-day Adventist population is one of the communities in the world that lives longer and with a higher quality of life thanks in part to the biological benefits of a vegetarian diet. Along with National Geographic, other media outlets have reported since then that the Adventist religious community considers a plant-based diet a very important factor for a healthy lifestyle. Adventists have been promoting this type of diet worldwide for more than 150 years. This article is an attempt to understand from a social-scientific perspective the origin of the importance they lend to diet and see whether this helps explain why approximately 150 years after the founding of the church, diet remains crucial for Adventists around the world. The conclusion proposed is that Adventists understood the adoption of a plant-based diet as a special divine instruction in order to nourish their new identity as a special people differentiated from the rest of society. This was possible through a desecularisation of diet that placed food in the moral category of the Adventist belief system.Keywords: Seventh-day Adventist Church; vegetarian diet; religion; health; desecularisation; identity

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