PhD Dissertation

Content Description The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence of W. C. White with Ellen G. White and church leaders, including A. G. Daniells, Percy Magan, W. W. Prescott, S. N. Haskell, and others. Topics covered range widely and include WCW’ role as his mother’s counselor, editorial assistant and interpreter of her counsel to church leaders, Ellen White’s use of literary sources, and church polity and strategy. The collection also includes three letter books, which index chronologically W. C....

Content Description The May-Ellen Colon Collection consists of the raw data used by May-Ellen Colon in writing her PhD dissertation, entitled “Sabbath-keeping practices and factors related to these practices among Seventh-day Adventists in 51 countries.” A survey entitled “Sabbath Observance Exploratory Survey (SOES) was used to compile the data for Colon’s research. This collection includes a sample SOES as well as the study’s completed surveys. Surveys that were improperly filled out and could not contribute to...

Content Description This collection reflects Otto Christensen as a missionary, linguist, scholar and a teacher. It contains his diaries from 1916 to 1947, countless Bible study index cards, and a large amount of his writings, including manuscripts, radio talks, sermons, papers, class materials, MA thesis, PhD dissertation, and numerous article drafts and articles publishing by various church magazines. A portion of this collection are books of which many are in Mongolian, a few are in Chinese, Tibetan and English....