The Truth About The White Lie
- Introduction
- Chapter 1—The Use Of Literary Sources
- A glance at The White Lie reveals many pages of similarities between Mrs. White’s writings and the writings of others. How much did Ellen White borrow from other sources?
- Would people in the nineteenth century have agreed with The White Lie’s judgment that Mrs. White’s literary borrowing constituted “wholesale” stealing?
- It has been rumored that Ellen White was threatened with a lawsuit for her literary borrowing from Conybeare and Howson’s Life and Epistles of the Apostle Paul. What are the facts?
- What about the structure and chapter titles of Ellen White’s Patriarchs and Prophets—Are they similar to Alfred Edersheim’s Old Testament Bible History?
- What about the illustrations from Wylie’s History of Protestantism which the Pacific Press published without credit to the Cassell Company?
- What about the use James and Ellen White made of the writings of J. N. Andrews and Uriah Smith?
- Did Mrs. White make any attempt to conceal from Adventists her literary borrowing?
- Did Mrs. White feel that it was permissible for her to paraphrase the language of others?
- What about the statements where Mrs. White appears to claim an exclusive divine source for what she wrote?
- How could it happen that Mrs. White, in describing what she was shown in a vision, employs the words of other authors?
- Is the comparison between the use of literary sources in the Bible and Ellen White’s literary borrowing really valid?
- Chapter 2—The Pioneers And The Prophet
- Chapter 3—Ellen White And The Bible
- Chapter 4—The Question Of Infallibility
- Chapter 5—The Visions
- Chapter 6—The Shut Door
- Chapter 7—The Literary Assistants
- Chapter 8—White Estate Research Policies
- Chapter 9—The Basic Issues
- Chapter 10—The Choice Is Ours
- Chapter 11—For Further Study