Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
HAROLD ALOMÍA
Pg. 10
After the war, the Adventist German leadership reacted by closing
ranks and resisted all outside pressures from the General Conference to
denounce or proscribe their perceived errors. It appears that the actions
taken were wholly justified by the German leadership. In a letter to the
General Conference President, J. L. McElhany, Adolf Minck expressed this
sentiment of self-defense by rationalizing that they had followed church
policy, they had maintained the structure of the church, and also that they
had had to adapt to living the commandments according to the times they
lived in, times of war, and not peace, nonetheless maintaining in their
minds the holiness of the Decalogue (Minck 1994:277).
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