The main teachings of Seventh-day Adventists are summarized in a set of twenty-two statements entitled “Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists.” Seventh-Day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine is a recent exposition of the teachings of this church.
The following descriptions are an oversimplification, and many Seventh-day Adventists would not precisely fit any of these categories. The three main branches of Adventist theological understanding we will call: Historic Adventism, Liberal Adventism, and Evangelical Adventism.
This is not a general book about Seventh-day Adventism. Rather it is an examination of the real heart of the movement—namely, its conviction that those within it constitute God’s special last-day propagators of the gospel in such a way as to make them the only true heirs of the Reformers.