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Seventh-day Adventist ChurchandPentecostalism
At a glance
- Common groundIn full: Common ground
- Common inheritanceBoth stand in the Protestant tradition, which grew from the 16th-century Reformation of the Western church, either directly or through later revival and free-church movements.
Source
- Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsIdentified, not independently read
Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.
- Scripture and authorityScripture as the supreme authority for faith and life
- Sacraments and ordinancesBaptism follows a personal confession of faith
- Common inheritanceBoth stand in the Protestant tradition, which grew from the 16th-century Reformation of the Western church, either directly or through later revival and free-church movements.
- What distinguishes themIn full: What distinguishes them
- Scripture and authorityBothScripture as the supreme authority for faith and lifeSeventh-day Adventist Church alsoA modern prophetic gift (Ellen G. White), whose writings are tested by the Bible
Below: 1 topic where teaching varies.
- How their histories connectIn full: How their histories connect
- No direct relationship recordedThey took shape separately.Seventh-day Adventist ChurchFormation of the denomination, 1863PentecostalismAzusa Street revival, 1906How each took shape
- Connected today?In full: their relationship today
Not yet researched
The Atlas has not yet researched their present relationship. This is a gap, not evidence either way.
Composed from each tradition’s sourced records. Where a topic is not yet recorded for one side, the Atlas says so rather than guess.
Structured comparison. Composed from each tradition’s sourced position records. No research has yet been written for this particular pair, so the Atlas shows only what those records establish.
Where they differ
Scripture and authority
Sources of authority
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Scripture as the supreme authority for faith and life; A modern prophetic gift (Ellen G. White), whose writings are tested by the Bible
- Pentecostalism
- Scripture as the supreme authority for faith and life
Where teaching varies within a tradition (1)
God
Doctrine of God
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- One God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- Pentecostalism
- One God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy SpiritOneness Pentecostal churches reject the doctrine of the Trinity, so this is not a position of the whole movement.
Not yet comparable (5)
No sourced position is recorded for one side, so the Atlas does not say whether they agree:
- Salvation and grace (characteristic emphasis): not recorded for Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Sacraments and ordinances (how the rites are understood and counted): not recorded for Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Sacraments and ordinances (christ's presence in the eucharist or lord's supper): not recorded for Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Sacraments and ordinances (distinctive practice): not recorded for Pentecostalism
- Day of worship (weekly day of worship): not recorded for Pentecostalism
How their histories relate
The Atlas has no researched record of a direct historical relationship between these two. Not every pair of traditions experienced a schism or union with each other. Each took shape in its own way:
Their relationship today
Not yet researched
The Atlas has no researched record of the present relationship between these two. That is a gap in the research, not evidence of any particular relationship.
Developments towards reconciliation
No documented agreement or formal dialogue between these traditions is recorded in the Atlas.
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