SDAs and War
May 3, 2008For the first time I have included a lecture on SDA attitudes towards war in my History of the SDA Church class. I have always wanted to, but time constraints mean that there’s always something that I have to grudgingly leave out. This year I made it a priority.
Julius Nam has a paper titled “Pacifists or Legalists? Korean Adventism and Conscientious Objection/Cooperation (1950-1970)” on his blog. Check it out here.
I’d also like to draw your attention to an upcoming conference: The Public Affairs & Religious Liberty (PARL) Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada is sponsoring a Symposium on Conscientious Objection in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Symposium is planned for November 6-9, 2008, Oshawa, Ontario; and anyone interested in submitting or presenting a paper may contact Tina Keys in the PARL Dept. at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada; by email with their proposal for a paper.
I am hoping to attend and present a paper on the history of conscientious objection in the SDA Church in South Africa.
Thanks for the update!
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Continental.
I can see why you were confused. There was a SlideShare show embedded in the post but the code no longer seems to be working. I have placed a link to the PowerPoint file for download instead. Apologies.
There is some confusion about conscientious objection and peace in the church and I hope that it can be ironed out. I hope somebody makes the papers available either in print or online.
Michael Peabody
http://www.religiousliberty.tv
Just to note that Julius Nam’s blog is no longer active, and hence his paper is unfortunately no longer available. Secondly, to note that the upcoming Symposium on Conscientious Objection and the SDA Church has an website with more information: http://legal.sdacc.org/cos/