Evangelica
{{Short description|US Christian magazine (1980–1987)}}
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Evangelica was a magazine started in Berrien Springs, Mi in 1980 following the controversial dismissal of Seventh-day Adventist theologian Desmond Ford. The founders of the magazine were graduate students at Andrews University. It was published until 1987, and had an "Evangelical Adventist" perspective. The university and church administration proscribed the magazine and banned its distribution as well as threatening the status of the student publishers.
It has {{OCLC|10234046}}.
History
{{See also|Sanctuary Review Committee}}
Evangelica was established in 1980[http://jewel.andrews.edu/record=b1671023 Library catalog entry] at Andrews University following Desmond Ford's dismissal from ministerial and teaching positions over his criticisms of the Adventist church's investigative judgment teaching. Ford soon formed his own non-denominational gospel ministry Good News Unlimited.
The "dissident bimonthly" Evangelica based in Napa, California was founded in reaction.{{cite magazine
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| title = The Church of Liberal Borrowings
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| date=1982-08-02
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}} Evangelica promoted the cause of evangelical Adventism.Leaving the Adventist Ministry: A Study of the Process of Exiting by Peter H. Ballis, p. 3 One author describes it as "wholly dedicated to the Fordian view on righteousness by faith, and the first issue gave a blow-by-blow description of the sacking of Ford."{{cite book
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| first = Lowell R.
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| title = The Edges of Seventh-day Adventism: A Study of Separatist Groups Emerging from the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1844–1980)
| publisher = Galilee Publications
| year = 1981
| location = Barragga Bay, Bermagui South, NSW
| pages = 230
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| isbn = 0-9593457-0-1
}} It was published alternately with Evangelica update (library number {{OCLC|9883255}}).[http://jewel.andrews.edu/record=b1561088 Library catalog entry for Evangelica update] at Andrews University Evangelica update was apparently published from 1982 till 1998, and also in 1993. Evangelica ceased publication in 1987.
= Editors =
- Alan Crandall[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0005b.html From Controversy to Crisis: An Updated Assessment of Seventh-day Adventism] by Kenneth R. Samples. Christian Research Journal 11:1 (Summer 1988), p. 9
Bart Willruth, Associate Editor
Alexander Labrecque, Associate Editor
In popular culture
A horse named after the magazine competed in the 1997 Grand National steeplechase finishing last of seventeen to complete the course.
See also
References
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Category:Magazines established in 1980
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1987
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