A chegada do adventismo em Alagoas

Abstract

This paper tries to build a report about the establishment of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the State of Alagoas during the 20th century through a literature review. This Christian religious movement came up in the United States of America, in an official manner in the year 1863, being significant and having a lot of members, which differentiates from other Christian groups on its doctrinal beliefs, amongst them: believing on the Sabbath and Celestial Sanctuary. This research wanted to tell the origin of the movement, its development while a proselytizer religious group, its expansion and arrival in South America, focusing on Brazil and consequently in the Alagoas territory in 1908 through the coming of the first pastor of the churches nomination. The installation of the first groups, first the baptisms, and the establishment of the first Congregation, just like the first conflicts faced by the group in the beginning of the operation in alagoanas lands.