Seeking a Sanctuary

"Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream" [cite book
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author = Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart
title = Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream
publisher = Indiana University Press
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isbn = 978-0-253-21868-1] is a book about the Seventh-day Adventist Church coauthored by Malcolm Bull ( [http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/People/staff_detail.php?id=3 staff profile] ) and Keith Lockhart. It has been described as the best book about the church, covering major areas such as Adventist theology and culture.Fact|date=April 2008

Overview

The book was first published in 1989; a second edition was released in 2006. Both its authors have Adventist backgrounds. According to Lockhart, the central theme "is that Adventism represents a deviant but successful response to the general American dream of self-realization and material success."

Lockhart was born into an Adventist family, became a member of the church through baptism, and studied theology at Newbold College (where he later taught) and religion at Andrews University. Bull was also born into an Adventist family and spent one year at Newbold College, but never officially joined the church. Lockhart works as a freelance journalist, and Bull as a lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Adventist Forum meeting

The book's authors gave a series of presentations on "Adventism's Futures" at the Adventist Forums conference in Santa Rosa, California on September 29, 2007.

See also

* Adventist studies

References

Reviews

First edition:
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive21-25/21-1reviews.pdf "Seeking a Sanctuary": Seventh-day Adventism as a Feature Film Classic] " by Jonathan Butler "Spectrum" 21:1 (December 1990)
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive21-25/21-1reviews.pdf"Seeking a Sanctuary": The Insiders' Insights for the Outsiders' Interest] " by R. Laurence Moore "Spectrum" 21:1 (December 1990)
* Review by Richard C. Osborn, "Journal of Adventist Education" 53 (Summer 1991), 44–45
* Review by Brian Eugene Strayer, "Andrews University Seminary Studies" 28 (Autumn 1990), 255–56
* Review by Gary M. Ross, "College and University Dialogue" 2:2 (1990), 26
* " [http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/MIN/MIN1989-12/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=29 Recently noted] " DjVulink "Ministry" 62 (December 1989), 29

Second edition:
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/online/35-2douglass.pdf From American Export to Global Product] " by Herbert Douglass, "Spectrum" 35 (Spring 2007), 56–60
* [http://spectrummagazine.typepad.com/the_spectrum_blog/2007/09/review-of-seeki.html Review] by Gary Land on the "Spectrum" Blog

External links

* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/archive16-20/20-1bull.pdf The Art of Expression] ", book chapter (1st edn.) reprinted in "Spectrum" 20:1 (1989), 14–23
* " [http://spectrummagazine.org/spectrum/online/34-4bulllockhart.pdf Authority and Identity] ", book chapter (2nd edn.) reprinted in "Spectrum" 34 (Autumn 2006), 35–50
* " [http://spd.adventist.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/32348/REC0907.pdf#page=8 Looking at Adventism] ", an interview of Keith Lockhart by Julius Nam, "Record" March 17, 2007, p.8–9