Lawrence T. Geraty

Child of the Apocalypse

History & Biography

“Few individuals I know . . . are better informed on this period of the Advent Movement than Donald Casebolt. He has made it his lifetime work to research every possible original literary source that has anything to do with the topic so thoroughly explicated in this book, which will be of special interest to church historians and scholars of religion who want to get to the bottom of what was going on in mid-nineteenth-century New England.”

Excavating Women

History & Biography

“During this time when many Christian churches are struggling with the issue of women in ministry, here comes a study persuasively demonstrating that in the early centuries after Christ, women were not only in positions of leadership in the church but were even ordained for their ministries. The contribution of this book is primarily its presentation of the archaeological evidence, shared within its Greco-Roman historical and cultural background.”

Father Miller's Daughter

History & Biography

“Casebolt shows that William Miller and some of his successors employed an allegorical-typological-historicist method. This led, long ago, to historically falsifiable results. He goes on to suggest how, in his opinion, some Adventists continue to rely—sometimes unwittingly—on this now-discredited method. . . . However one views Casebolt’s findings, there is much to learn from them.”

God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense

Theology

“Tonstad writes with passion, eloquence, and fresh insight, including the notion that dissent is a prerequisite for an open society and the precondition for better theology. This is a book for our time--a time of doubt and unbelief; it shows how the Bible has resources with which to capture the experience of suffering from within, how the New Testament makes sense in a time of non-sense, and how story after biblical story offers glimpses of 'sense.'”