Adventism
A living tradition within Protestantism.
Adventism is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written Millerite movement (origin).
Origin
Founder named in the sources: William Miller. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Grew out of the preaching of William Miller, a Baptist convert who concluded from the book of Daniel that Christ would return about 1843 and began preaching in 1831. After Miller withdrew, his follower Samuel Snow proposed 22 October 1844; the non-appearance is known in Adventist usage as the Great Disappointment. No founding year for the movement as a whole is given.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Adventism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-adventism.
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.