Robert W. Olson

Robert W. Olson (October 25, 1920 ^[1] – April 16, 2013 in Hendersonville, North Carolina^[2] ) was an American Seventh-day Adventist leader who was director of the Ellen G. White Estate from 1978 to 1990.

Biography

Olson was the first staff member who was not a direct descendant of Ellen G. White to run her estate and the first staff member to hold a Ph.D. He had a wide variety of pastoral and administrative posts before joining the White Estate in the early 1970s. His leadership was characterized by a new openness to her writings (including the release of the controversial "Z file"^[3]) and the release and publication of Ellen White's published writings on CD-ROM.

Publications

• "101 Questions on the Sanctuary and on Ellen White" (PDF) (Washington, D.C.: Ellen G. White Estate, March 1981). Also appeared as a supplement to the Australasian Record of June 8, 1981)
• "The 'Shut Door' Documents" compilation, with occasional commentary. White Estate, 1982
• The Crisis Ahead: A Compilation From The Writings Of Ellen G. White, 1974 Published by College Bookstore, Angwin, California

See also

• Ellen G. White Estate
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Seventh-day Adventist theology
• Seventh-day Adventist eschatology
• History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Teachings of Ellen G. White
• Inspiration of Ellen G. White
• Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Investigative judgment
• Pillars of Adventism
• Second Coming
• Ellen G. White
• Adventism
• Seventh-day Adventist Church Pioneers
• Seventh-day Adventist worship

References

Offline resources

• Brief biography, a DVD extra in Prophetic Inspiration: The Holy Spirit at Work