Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas: Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics

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CUP Archive, Mar 30, 1990 - Philosophy - 328 pages
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 an unchecked exploitation of natural resources heralding imminent ecological crisis, or, worst of all, with the recognition that only in this current generation have people the capacity to destroy themselves and their environment. This book seeks to show how, and why, Seventh-day Adventism has addressed these moral issues, and that the ethical questions arising from these issues are especially relevant to the Adventist Church and its development. Dr Pearson looks specifically at the moral decisions Adventists have made in the area of human sexuality, on such issues as contraception, abortion, the role and status of women, divorce and homosexuality, from the beginnings of the movement to 1985.
 

Contents

Confrontation with the issues
3
two major doctrinal influences
17
stable homes and
32
Victorian and American 1335
43
the pursuit of purity
55
the celebration of sex
72
early hostility
92
tensions in the institutionalized church
106
the pain
152
a perennial problem
182
problems with principles
197
the sin unnamed among Adventists
229
sin disease
235
Adventism in transition
275
Select bibliography
311
Copyright

in the shadow of the prophetess
134

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Michael Pearson lives in England.

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