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SDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future

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avondale-bepress.context-key10899073
avondale-bepress.submission-paththeo_books/63
avondale.affiliateOliver, Barry
avondale.departmentScripture, Spirituality and Society Research Centre
avondale.facultyTheology
avondale.reporting.versionPublished Version
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Barry
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:25:33Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:25:33Z
dc.date.issued1989-01-01
dc.date.submitted2017-10-13T15:27:40Z
dc.description.abstract<p>Between 1888 and 1903 the Seventh-day Adventist Church reorganized its administrative structures. That pocess refined a form of church government which had been designated as "representative". The reorganized form of the representative church government was conceived in response to the changing needs of the church, particularly those needs which emerged from its numerical, geographical, and institutional expansion.</p>
dc.identifier.citation<p>Oliver, B. D. (1989).<em> SDA organizational structure: Past, present and future.</em> Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.</p>
dc.identifier.isbn0943872979 (pbk.)
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/1897/10899073
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.provenance<p>This book was originally published as:</p> <p>Oliver, B. D. (1989). <em>SDA organizational structure: Past, present and future.</em> Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.</p> <p>ISBN: 1-943872-97-9</p>
dc.rights<p>Due to copyright restrictions this book is unavailable for download.</p> <p>&copy; 1989 Andrews University Press</p> <p>This book may be accessed from the publisher <a href="https://universitypress.andrews.edu/">here.</a></p> <p>Staff and Students of Avondale College may access this book from Avondale College Library (262.067 014).</p> <p>This book is a reprint of Barry Oliver thesis (Ph.D.)--Andrews University, 1989 entitled: <em>Principles for reoganization of the Seventh-day Adventist administrative structure, 1888-1903, implications for an international church</em></p>
dc.subjectSeventh-day adventists
dc.subjectchurch
dc.subjectstructure
dc.subjecthistory
dc.titleSDA Organizational Structure: Past, Present and Future
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