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.