Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas: Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary EthicsTechnological 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 |
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in the shadow of the prophetess | 134 |
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