Jonathan M. Butler

Child of the Apocalypse

History & Biography

“Casebolt provides a deeply researched and highly revisionist look at Ellen Harmon’s Millerite years before she became Ellen G. White, the Seventh-day Adventist prophet. In this slim, provocative monograph, Casebolt covers unfamiliar ground and may unsettle readers who know only the later White and assume she sprang into existence fully formed and everything her devoted adherents claimed her to be. But that is all the more reason to enter Ellen Harmon’s world as Casebolt reconstructs it and ponder his findings.”