Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas

Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780521091480
Untertitel:
Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics
Autor:
Michael Pearson
Herausgeber:
Cambridge University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
340
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.08.2008
ISBN:
0521091489

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

Inhalt
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.


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