| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Douglas Morgan. Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 269. $32.00.

Timothy Weber, George Marsden, and others have made a persuasive case that premillennialists have not always remained passive in this world while awaiting the next. Premillennialists have frequently acted in the public sphere out of a sense that God required certain public and even reformist actions. In spite of the efforts of such scholars, the stereotype persists of premillennialists sitting passively—the more white robes the better—while waiting for the end. Douglas Morgan adds to the evidence that runs contrary to the stereotype and thus may help to chip it away. 1

Morgan's work looks at the Seventh-day Adventist tradition, examining the approach of those Adventists to the nation and to involvement in public life from the Millerite period of the 1840s through the late twentieth century. Morgan contends that the "theology of history" of the Adventists gave shape to decisions about how to approach or to avoid the American republic and engagement in its public sphere. "Their apocalyptic eschatology," Morgan writes, "has been a springboard for more than a hundred years of activism for human liberty and, on occasion, for social change" (pp. 8–9). . . .

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