Millenial dreams and moral dilemmas : Seventh-day Adventism and contemporary ethics

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 328 p. ; 23 cm; illus with ports. 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. Subjects: General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists. Seventh-Day Adventist Church Doctrines. Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten. Seventh-day Adventist Church. 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. Christian ethics. Adventists.Adventistes Doctrines. Morale sexuelle. Sexualit� Aspect religieux Adventistes du septi�me jour. R�le selon le sexe Aspect religieux Adventistes du septi�me jour. Christian ethics Seventh-Day Adventist authors. Sex role Religious aspects Seventh-Day Adventists. Adventists Doctrines. Seventh-Day Adventists Doctrines. Sex Religious aspects Seventh-Day Adventists. Sexual ethics. Social ethics. Christliche EthikChristelijke ethiek. Zevendedagadventisten. 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. Christian ethics. 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. Sex relations Attitudes of Seventh-day Adventist Church