Gary Land's Historical Dictionary of the Seventh-Day Adventists, published by Scarecrow Press in 2005, is an academic reference work covering Adventist history, institutions and worship practice, including the movement's Millerite origins in the 1840s. Land is an established Adventist historian. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed reference work offering broad, entry-by-entry coverage across the movement's history and institutions. Its limit is that a dictionary entry is necessarily brief, so a claim needing extended treatment of one specific episode in Adventist history, such as the Great Disappointment itself, is better served by a focused monograph on that episode alongside this reference.
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Published by Scarecrow Press, an academic reference press, as Gary Land's scholarly reference dictionary, the standard academic reference work for the denomination. NotesReference work on Adventist history, institutions and worship, including the movement's Millerite origins.
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AuthorGary Land
PublisherScarecrow Press
Publication Year2005
Source Typeacademic reference
Claims Backed By This Source (33 claims)
This source backs 33 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 4 claims: 2 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 2 claims: 2 general references.
- Prophecies, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- States & Territories, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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