Pacific Studies
Abstract
Growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was particularly strong in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands in the last decade. This article discusses a variety of reasons for this change, emphasizing Adventist beliefs that create a distinct historical consciousness among church members. In the face of a rapidly changing society, it is argued, these beliefs structure an appealing ideological framework that facilitates both individual and collective transformation. Significant for Eastern Highland Adventists is a doctrine of opposition toward other Christian groups and a sense of their own unique role in the prophetic events that make up their historical model.
Recommended Citation
Westermark, George
(1998)
"HISTORY, OPPOSITION, AND SALVATION IN AGARABI ADVENTISM,"
Pacific Studies: Vol. 21:
No.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/pacific-studies-journal/vol21/iss2/5
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