by Adventist Today. The book has started healthy debate in Seventh-day Adventist circles as it clarifies issues in Adventist theology. This is the first official biography of Dr Desmond Ford with Hook charging the church hierarchy with calumny during Ford's defrocking. The book is heavily footnoted. It emphasises the Christian gospel, and describes a number of key Adventist doctrines. Publications Hook has edited or contributed to the following journals: Ministry Record Signs of the Times (Australia) Hari Jacaranda Worker Adventist Heritage Adventist Professional Intrasyd Avondale Reflections, published by the Avondale Alumni (webpage) Good News Unlimited Book chapters by his pen are included in: "Seventh-day Adventists in the South Pacific: 1885–1985," ed. Noel Clapham (Warburton, Victoria: Signs Publishing Company, 1985), pp. 144–165 "Towards Righteousness by Faith: 1888 in Retrospect," ed. Arthur Ferch (Wahroonga, NSW: South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, 1989), pp. 25–49 "Symposium on Adventist History in the South Pacific: 1885–1918," ed. Arthur Ferch (Wahroonga, NSW: South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, 1986), pp. 92–104 He was a consultant for Kerrin Cook, "The Railway Came to Ku-Ring-Gai," and contributed to The Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia. Books and monographs by Milton Hook Flames Over Battle Creek. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald, 1977. Adventist Heritage Series, Nos. 1–32. Sydney, NSW: Seventh-day Adventist Church (South Pacific Division Education Department), 1988. Avondale: Experiment on the Dora. Cooranbong, NSW: Avondale Academic Press, 1998. Okely Ancestors. Castle Hill, NSW: Bold Print, 1998. A Smith Family From Boldre. Self-published, 1998. Hook Family Ties to Tenterden. Self-published, 1999. Eastwood-Epping Philatelic Society: The First Fifty Years. Sydney, NSW: Richard Peck, 2001. Desmond Ford: Reformist Theologian, Gospel Revivalist. Riverside, California: Adventist Today Foundation, 2008. , (pbk.), , (pbk.). Extract: "Contemporary Adventism: The Owl and the Aging Tiger". Adventist Today 15:3 (May 2007), p24 See also History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church References 1939 births Living people Historians from Western Australia Australian historians of religion Australian biographers Male biographers Historians of Oceania Andrews University alumni Australian Seventh-day Adventists People educated at Kent Street Senior High School