"Yet Dr Taylor persists in weaving his "neo-Mediaeval" mantle for Ed Zinke. Why?..."

Jim, I take Dr Taylor's references to the Mediaeval church to be mostly by way of analogy as to the power of that Church to control the thinking of the populace then, and the GC, coupled with EGW, to manage how 'good' SDAs should think.  Surely he would never imagine it could mean anything more than that?

I think the problem lies in the way that SDAism is more aligned with OT Judaistic thinking, plus Mediaeval/RC literalism than with the thinking of the NT at its mystical heart.