21. “An Evaluation of Certain Aspects of the Martin Articles”, 1957

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21, Call No.: 024020

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Content Description

From the Collection: This is a very extensive collection of well over 250 scholarly papers, the vast majority of them written by Cottrell. There are papers covering the topics of hermeneutics, exegesis, church polity, governance, and history, Daniel, Revelation, Ellen White, science, plus many others. Cottrell surely had a wide range of interests and seemingly an input on almost every subject which became current in the second half of the 20th century. Nearly all of the papers are unpublished meaning they were designed for limited circulation. Many of the papers were prepared for distribution to a church sponsored study group or committee such as the Bible Research Fellowship or the Biblical Research Institute.

Perhaps one of Cottrell’s greatest contributions to the Adventist Church was his work on the authoritative Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary series. As mentioned above he served as the associate editor of the series along with editor Francis D. Nichol. Besides editing many thousands of pages of other peoples work he wrote about 2,000 pages. The Commentary articles are not signed. Cottrell provides a list of the various authors and what books of the Bible they contributed to on the project.

A significant work of Cottrell’s which is not well known is his Eschatology of Daniel. It is at number 222 in the inventory. It was never formally published. Cottrell says the manuscript awaits a climate of openness and objectivity in the church, which is essential to a fair examination of the facts.”

Dates

1957

Extent

32 Pages

Language of Materials

From the Sub-Group: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

At the conclusion of the Martin-Bamhouse series of colloquia Martin decided to leave Adventiss out of his book on cults and to publish a separate book on Adventists. But he wanted an official book he could cite as evidence to classify us among evangelical Christians. In other words our book must come out before his. It was then decided to gather and unify our responses to his questions into book form. But we needed some idea of the form of his comments. Accordingly an editorial committee of three persons was appointed to prepare what became Questions on Doctrine. W anting some idea of the nature of his comments, the editorial committee asked me to review all that he and others had written on the subject in order to estimate the nature of his remarks. I read everything that had appeared in evangelical publications and summarized it in this paper.