Michael Pearson

Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas

Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Technological developments on many fronts have created in our society some extremely difficult moral predicaments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780521091480
• ISBN-10: 0521091489
• Artikelnr.: 25586711

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Confrontation with the issues
Part II. Major Influences in Adventist Moral Thought: 2. Advent and remnant: two major doctrinal influences
3. Keeping the family together: stable homes and a united church
4. A cultural legacy: Victorian and American
Part III. Issues of Human Sexuality: 5. Marital relations among Adventists: the pursuit of purity
6. Adventists and intimacy: the celebration of sex
7. Adventists and abortion: early hostility
8. Abortion: tensions in the institutionalised church
9. Early Adventist women: in the shadow of the prophetess
10. Adventist women in the modern church: the pain of liberation
11. Divorce in Adventism: a perennial problem
12. Divorcing and enforcing: problems with principles and procedures
13. Homosexuality: the sin unnamed among Adventists
14. Homosexuality in Adventism: sin, disease or preference?
Part IV. Postscript: 15. Adventism in transition.