Restorationism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Seventh-day Adventists==== {{Main|Seventh-day Adventist Church}} The Seventh-day Adventist Church grew out of the Adventist movement, in particular the Millerites. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest of several [[Adventism|Adventist]] groups which arose from the [[Millerites|Millerite]] movement of the 1840s in upstate [[New York (state)|New York]], a phase of the [[Second Great Awakening]]. Important to the Seventh-day Adventist movement is a belief in [[Progressive revelation (Christian)|progressive revelation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andrews.edu/~damsteeg/Prog%20rev.html|title=Seventh-day Adventist Doctrines and Progressive Revelation}}</ref> teaching that the Christian life and testimony is intended to be typified by the [[Spirit of Prophecy (Adventist)|Spirit of Prophecy]], as explained in the writings of [[Ellen G. White]]. Much of the theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church corresponds to Protestant Christian teachings such as the Trinity and the [[Biblical infallibility|infallibility of Scripture]]. Distinctive teachings include the [[soul sleep|unconscious state of the dead]] and the doctrine of an [[investigative judgment]]. The church is also known for its emphasis on diet and health, its holistic understanding of the person, its promotion of religious liberty, and its conservative principles and lifestyle. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page