Chapter III - The Crisis of 1843-44

This chapter will show how increasing opposition led the Millerites to develop a new ecclesiological self-understanding, one which ultimately led to their separation from the churches and the creation of a new religious body. Further study will also be given to developments in their understanding of time calculations, partly because they were perennially a primary motivation for the Millerite mission to warn mankind, and partly because-due to a new understanding of the Midnight Cry-they climaxed in a special missionary movement of paramount importance to the formation of the SDA theology of mission.FSDA 78.1