Millennial dreams and moral dilemmas : Seventh-Day adventism and contemporary ethics /

Millennial dreams and moral dilemmas : Seventh-Day adventism and contemporary ethics / Michael Pearson.

Technological developments on many fronts have created in our society some extremely difficult moral predicaments. Previous generations have not had to face the dilemmas posed by, for example, the availability of safe abortions, sperm banks and prostoglandins. They have not had to come to terms with...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Pearson, Michael, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Subjects:
Christian ethics > Seventh-Day Adventist authors.
Social ethics.
Seventh-Day Adventists > Doctrines.
Adventists > Doctrines.
Sexual ethics.
Sex > Religious aspects > Seventh-Day Adventists.
Sex role > Religious aspects > Seventh-Day Adventists.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • Confrontation with the issues
  • II. Major influences in Adventist moral thought
  • Advent and remnant: two major doctrinal influences
  • Keeping the family together: stable homes and a united church
  • A cultural legacy: Victorian and American
  • III. Issues of human sexuality
  • Marital relations among Adventists: the pursuit of purity
  • Adventists and intimacy: the celebration of sex
  • Adventists and abortion: early hostility
  • Abortion: tensions in the institutionalized church
  • Early Adventists women: int he shadow of the prophetess
  • Adventists women in the modern church: the pain of liberation
  • Divorce in Adventism: a perennial problem
  • Divorcing and enforcing: problems with principles and procedures
  • Homosexuality: the sin unnamed among Adventists
  • Homosexuality in Adventism: sin, disease or preference?
  • IV. Postscript
  • Adventism in transition.

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