Adventism struggles with balance between freedom and order, and our defense of freedom is too often ambivalent. Spinoza reminds us that, without full freedom, any human initiative is destined to...

Does a family (or culture) go wrong if we fail to achieve that paternal archetype of success and efficiency? Or might it also go wrong even if we achieve it perfectly?

Adventism, through its hermeneutical and theological mechanisms, is like the Hobbesian state: an entity that privileges stability over change, necessity over contingency, order over movement.

Kallipolis represents the ideal city in Plato’s Republic. Where justice reigns. But for Plato, justice is order. Adventism, too, has always cultivated a passion and a true ministry for order. But...