Serious about secular society?

Abstract

"On June 11, 1981, the Executive Committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists appointed a committee to give study to the challenge of secularism for the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. That committee comprising representatives of the General Conference and scholars from Church institutions met at least five times between 1981 and 1983, producing papers and gathering data. Selected working papers were assembled and published under the editorial pen of Humberto Rasi and Fritz Guy.' Papers were included by such notables as William G. Johnsson, Jon K. Paulien, Gottfried Oosterwal, Mark A. Finley, J. Robert Spangler, Fritz Guy, and Dan G. Matthews. It appeared that the Church was taking its mission to the secular world seriously."