A Brief History Of Seventh-Day Adventist Visual Culture From 1830 To 1860: The Use Of Religious Images By A Text-Centered Movement

This paper presents a brief historical and bibliographic account on the development of an Adventist visual culture between the years of 1830 to 1860 from a perspective of the text-centered orientation of the movement. To that end, the paper describes the print-driven vocation and the visual culture of the Millerism, a nineteenth-century American revival movement that preached Jesus' return in 1843-1844, a context from which Adventism emerged. Afterwards, the text describes a history of Millerite and Adventist visual culture, its characteristics and an influence of the text-centered orientationon the production of illustrated diagrams which, in the Millerite-Adventist tradition, were a sophisticated text image scheme of linear narrative.