The Spiritual Experience of Adventist Students - The Case of Newbold College

Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted among a randomly selected sample of students at Newbold College, Bracknell, England. All of them were between 18 and 21 years of age and came from European countries. The purpose of this project was to investigate the nature of the informants' religious experience past, present, and future and how Adventist higher education had affected their faith development. The following basic themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews: (a) Early faith experiences (i.e., home and family, especially mother, were most significant in early religious development); (b) Conversion (i.e., most participants stated that they had experienced a religious conversion and went on to describe it); (c) The church organization (i.e., the church is perceived as a desirable institution with strengths and areas that need improvement); (d) The Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) lifestyle (i.e., most informants agreed with the expected SDA lifestyle but warned about the danger of forgetting the bases); (e) The role of SDA higher education (i.e., peer positive influence appears as the most prominent factor in faith development during higher education); (f) The importance of religion (i.e., religion consistently appears as one of the most relevant factors in participants' lives); (g) Faith in the future (i.e., almost all participants showed determination to remain faithful members of their church).

Availability:
Free
Publication Date:
2000
Author:
Julian Melgosa
Publisher:
Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS)
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Order Information:
INFO Vol 03 No 2 (2000)
Language:
English
Resource Type:
Internet Resources; Published Articles & Papers
Resource Objective:
Research
Level:
Tertiary
Audience:
Administrator / Leader, Teacher / Faculty, Researcher
Religious Origin:
Seventh-day Adventist