The Great Controversy

*The Great Controversy* is Ellen Gould White's most widely read book outside Seventh-day Adventist circles. First published in 1858 in a much shorter form, expanded in 1884 and 1888, and revised one last time at the author's own supervision in 1911, the book sweeps across nineteen centuries from the destruction of Jerusalem to a panoramic vision of the close of human history.

The early chapters set out a Protestant reading of church history: the persecution of the early Christians, the rise of the medieval papacy, the Waldenses, Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, and the Reformation across Europe. The middle chapters take up the rise of the Adventist movement and the doctrine of the investigative judgment. The final chapters move into prophetic territory: the immutability of God's law, the final warning, the time of trouble, and the return of Christ.

This edition reproduces the complete 1911 final text in full: Mrs. White's Introduction and all forty-two chapters. A short editor's preface places the book in its biographical and ecclesiastical context.