• Edwin Zackrison. Profiles of a Religious Man: Confessions of a Religious Ad-dict. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2020. 636 pp.

    Author(s):
    Reinder Bruinsma
    Editor(s):
    Tom de Bruin (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Spes Christiana (journal)
    Subject(s):
    Autobiographies
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/s8tv-af09
    Abstract:
    It seems a legitimate question whether this autobiographical book merits a review in Spes Christiana. It was written by an academic but that, in itself, does not mean that the book can be classified as “academic.” Nonetheless, I believe the book is of real interest to historians of Adventism – not primarily because of author’s role in recent Adventist history, but because of the many insights it provides regarding persons, issues and events in American Adventism in the period of ca. 1965 to ca. 1985. The non-scholarly reader may not always be able to appreciate the broader context of Zackrison’s story, but historians of Adventism will, no doubt, find many details that supplement their knowledge of the Adventist denomination during this period in the.
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    Publisher:
    European Adventist Society of Theology and Religious Studies
    Pub. Date:
    December 2022
    Journal:
    Spes Christiana
    Volume:
    33
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    131 - 137
    ISSN:
    0935-7467
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 months ago
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