• Book Review: Donald Edward Casebolt. Child of the Apocalypse: Ellen G. White. Eu-gene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021. 120 pp.

    Author(s):
    Radisa Antic
    Editor(s):
    Tom de Bruin (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Spes Christiana (journal)
    Subject(s):
    White, Ellen G., 1827-1915
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/a7ym-2160
    Abstract:
    Casebolt’s book, Child of the Apocalypse: Ellen White, brings a new hypothe-sis to the field of Ellen White studies by claiming that twelve-year-old Ellen Harmon was not consciously prevaricating but was consistently wrong and deluded in an objectively clinical sense. While other Ellen White critics have doubted her genuineness and trustworthiness, Casebolt claims that Ellen was at the time mentally incapacitated because of her severe brain trauma and her “shattered” central nervous system, which had forced her to drop out of school. Thus, for instance, Walter T. Rea argues in the White Lie that Ellen White was a conscious deceiver and fraud. Casebolt, on the other hand, concludes that Ellen did not intend to deceive but, although she was mistaken in matters of more than ‘little consequence,’ she was not aware that she was factually mistaken.
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    Publisher:
    European Adventist Society of Theology and Religious Studies
    Pub. Date:
    June 2023
    Journal:
    Spes Christiana
    Volume:
    34
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    171 - 174
    ISSN:
    0935-7467
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 months ago
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