Transcription of The Seventh-day Adventist Tradition - Advocate Health Care
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THEPARKRIDGECENTERMost Adventists trace their religious ancestryback to the Millerite movement of the early1840s, when William Miller (1782 1849), a Baptistfarmer-preacher from upstate New York, aroused thenation with his prediction that Christ would returnin 1843 or 1844. The movement split into severalfactions when the event did not occur as of these factions evolved into the seventh -dayAdventist church, distinguished by the observance ofSaturday as the Sabbath and the spiritual leadershipof Ellen G. White (1827 1915), who as a 17-year-oldreported visions during which she received divineinstruction. In part, these instructions, as presentedby White, supported the evolution of the church sdistinctive philosophy of Health by elevating Health -ful living into a moral obligation for living as a feature of religiousand moral conviction was given institutional form inthe establishment of the Battle Creek Sanitari
Organ and Tissue Transplantation 6 Mental Health 7 Medical Experimentation 7 and Research Death and Dying 7 Special Concerns 9 Part of the “Religious Traditions and Healthcare Decisions” handbook series published by the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics Edwin R. DuBose, Ph.D., is Senior Ethics Consultant and Director
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