Seventh-Day Adventism and the abuse of women

• Main Author: Finucane, Colin.
• Other Authors: Van Wyk, A.G
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Abuse; Women; Adventism; Seventh-Day Adventist Church; Anthropology; Ecclesiology; Eschatology; Apocalyptic; Human rights issues; Kingdom of God; Evangelism; Mission; Patriarchal System; Confessionals; Progressives; View of Scripture; 261.8358; Church work with abused women.; Seventh-Day Adventists > Doctrines.; Abused women > Religious aspects > Seventh-Day Adventists.; Abused women > Pastoral counseling of.; Human rights > Religious aspects > Seventh-Day Adventists.; Women's rights > Religious aspects > Christianity.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16786

Women have been abused from the beginning of time and it would appear that a patriarchal system has facilitated this abuse. Churches, in general, and Seventh-Day Adventists, in particular, have been silent on the issue of Abuse. It is my thesis that a predominantly confessional Seventh-Day Adventist's view and use of Scripture are foundational to this silence on human rights issues. Adventist eschatology is predominantly apocalyptic in nature, focussing on end-time events, thus, the present is viewed secondary. Human rights issues are marginalised with the focus on evangelism. Thus, relationships are secondary and abused women have not been accommodated within the Seventh-Day Adventist framework of worship and caring. === M.Th. (Practical Theology)