Acquired or Inspired
Exploring the origins of the Adventist lifestyle
By Don McMahon
Paperback, 255 pages
Signs Publsihing, 2005
ISBN: 9781876010737
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Applying today's medical thinking to health and lifestyle advice from almost 150 years ago hardly seems a fair comparison.
As Dr Don McMahon discovers, most medical writers of the late 19th century wilt under such scrutiny. So how do the writings of Ellen G White-who wrote without any medical training or background-stand up?
Part scientific investigation, part personal journey, the book Acquired or Inspired? explores the writings of Ellen White in a way they have not been explored before.
This is a very technical book which is filled with statistics, probability and logic in an effort to determine how 'inspired' Ellen White was in here selective borrowing of others medical writings of the time.
- The problem
- Historical background
- Accuracy
- 'Whats' and 'Whys'
- Other influences
- Borrowing
- The 'Review and Herald'
- 'The laws of life'
- Selectivity
- Independence
- Dr. Kellogg
- Marking the 'whats'
- Assessing the 'whys'
- Probability
- Concluding thoughts
Research notes CD-ROM Appendices:
- Ellen White, Ministry of healing (1905)
- Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (1861-64) - James White
- Sylvester Graham, Lectures on the science of human life (early 1850s)
- William Alcott, The laws of health (1860)
- Larkin B. Coles, Philosophy of health (1860)
- James Caleb Jackson, The laws of life, Vol. 5 (1862) & Vol. 6 (1863)
- John Harvey Kellogg, Plain facts for old and young (1888).
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