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The Silent Church

Human Rights and Adventist Social Ethics

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  • © 1998

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  1. Zdravko Plantak
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 1-8

  3. Seventh-day Adventists and Human Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Adventist Attitudes to Human Rights: An Historical Perspective

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 11-37

    3. Emergence of Concern for Human Rights in Adventism

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 38-50

  4. Seventh-day Adventist Responses to Some Issues in Human Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Wealth Divide: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Poor

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 53-73

    3. Racial Divide: Discrimination and Adventism — Theological and Hermeneutical Considerations

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 74-91

    4. Gender Divide: The Role of Women in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 92-121

  5. Social Theology in Seventh-day Adventist Scholarship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Reasons for Social Concern in Modern Adventism

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 125-136

    3. Adventism’s ‘New Theology’

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 137-150

  6. Theology and Ethics of Human Rights: The Seventh-day Adventist Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Philosophical Basis for Human Rights

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 153-162

    3. A Common Theological Basis for Human Rights

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 163-186

    4. Adventist Basis for Human Rights

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 187-207

    5. Conclusion

      • Zdravko Plantak
      Pages 208-213

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 214-271
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The relationship between the Adventist church and society at large has always been ambiguous. One reason for this has been the church's inarticulate social ethics. While the church upheld the concept of human dignity, promoted religious liberty and sided with the poor, nationalism and racism developed among its members. Women in the church were also unfairly treated. Zdravko Plantak confronts this problem head-on. He begins by looking at the church's history, theology and ethics in order to discover reasons for the inconsistencies in its approach to human rights, and then moves on to propose a more comprehensive approach to its social ethics.

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Zdravko Plantak is Pastor in London and Kent, and an international speaker on Adventist issues.

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