Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

Our quandary has now come into the open and
the Evangelicals are focusing on inconsistencies in
our own house—doctrinal fallacies that leave us
vulnerable. They call the time and the place when
we began to depart from "mid-nineteenth century
Adventism." They tell us and the world it was in
the 1950s that changes began when we were no
longer a "non-Christian cult." In the 1960s our
dialogue with them took us well into their camp,
even though a few Adventist scholars were
strongly opposed to the move away from what in
recent times has received the label "Traditional
Adventism." However, by the mid-1970s there
were these two distinct factions in Adventism—
"traditional" and "evangelical." Then in the 1980s a
time of further theological crisis came to
Adventists.
The roots of this crisis are to be found in the
book, Questions on Doctrine, published in 1957.
This book repudiated some major historical
Adventist teachings which are now being classified
as "traditional." Growing out of this situation there
developed in the church another group known as
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