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Puritan Reformed Journal, 2017
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Andrews University Seminary Student Journal, 2015
For centuries, scholars have debated the nature of the relationship between the seventh day (Gen 2:1-3) and the biblical Sabbath (Exod 20:8-11). While Covenant Theologians insist that the seventh day works as the theological foundation of the biblical Sabbath, New Covenant Theologians reject this relationship and insist the Sabbath is an institution given exclusively to the Israelites. This article argues that according to an exegetical-historical and theological reading of selected texts on the Sabbath, one must regard the seventh day as the theological foundation of the biblical Sabbath to sustain a consistent and coherent theological system that uses Scripture as its epistemological foundation.
Sabbath, The Lord’s Day, and the Christian Worship
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Sabbath and the Lord’s day are important concepts in the Old and New Testament. However, Christian traditions have downgraded their role and significant correlation with the Christian worship. The question is how the meaning of Sabbath and the Lord’s day could contribute to understanding the biblical teaching about worship. This article investigates Sabbath dan the Lord’s day from the historical redemptive perspective, demonstrates their significances, and considers their application for the current issue of online services. It argues that Sabbath and the Lord’s day realize of God’s vision regarding the purpose of creation and the new creation and underline God’s present seen through the right and harmonious relationships between human and all creations. Christian worship should signify their sacramental roles demonstrating God’s present through the right and harmonious relationship of believing community. This may become a substantial issue of online services, which is hardly able ...
Sabbath, the Lord's Day, and Christian Worship
NPTRS 2.1, 2014
Sabbath and the Lord's day are important concepts in the Old and New Testament. However, Christian traditions have downgraded their role and significant correlation with the Christian worship. The question is how the meaning of Sabbath and the Lord's day could contribute to understanding the biblical teaching about worship. This article investigates Sabbath dan the Lord's day from the historical redemptive perspective, demonstrates their significances, and considers their application for the current issue of online services. It argues that Sabbath and the Lord's day realize of God's vision regarding the purpose of creation and the new creation and underline God's present seen through the right and harmonious relationships between human and all creations. Christian worship should signify their sacramental roles demonstrating God's present through the right and harmonious relationship of believing community. This may become a substantial issue of online services, which is hardly able to show harmonious fellowship of true believers.
THE EIGHTH DAY ARGUMENT: A JEWISH RATIONALE FOR THE REJECTION OF THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH
THE EIGHTH DAY ARGUMENT: A JEWISH RATIONALE FOR THE REJECTION OF THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, 2024
Building from the assumption of the Sabbath’s obsolescence much has been argued for the prominence of Sunday gatherings already in the New Testament corpus, or even that Jesus, though a Sabbath keeper, paved the way for the substitution of the seventh day Sabbath, which is by no means self-evident and therefore deserves further investigation. Ad interim, irrespective of the proper biblical interpretation of the continuity of the seventh day Sabbath, only voluntary blindness would deny the clear presence of the Sunday as a day to gather and worship within the Apostolic Fathers’ literature only a few decades after the last documents of the New Testament were written, at the pace that rejecting that which is Jewish was on vogue. Undoubtedly, the post apostolic treatment of the Sabbath is unprecedented given the Jewish origins of most New Testament writers, at the pace that the resurrection of Jesus became the main reason to account for the novelty of either worshiping on or keeping the Sunday. But how? What was the theological route that brought about such a phenomenon, i.e., that the Old Testament Sabbath became void on the basis of the resurrection of Jesus. Whereas Bacchiocchi, and many in his footsteps, find in the confluence of paganism, anti-Jewish sentiment and the prominence of the church in Rome as reasons that account for the suppression of the Sabbath in favour of the Sunday or Lord’s Day, there remains a need to explore the process through which such a belief came to be in the first place, hence the question: how did the resurrection of Jesus become the hermeneutical framework for the rejection of the
The present paper is a Bachelor dissertation entitled: “The Theological and Ethical Understanding of the Sabbath: Slavery or Liberation?”. Note that it was written in French and here is its translation in English. The main agenda of this dissertation is attempting to deduce from the Sabbath law a theology and ethics of liberation. The Sabbath law constituted a great challenge to the people of Israel and in the history of the Church, its observance has been controversial. This paper studies first what has been the aspiration and understanding of the Christians of the early Church, the patristic period and of the Reformation movement toward the Sabbath. As there are few churches in the world, so far in their doctrines, which observe the Sabbath as the day of rest, it secondly examines if the rest good number of churches simply adopt the attitude of indifference to it or have another comprehension of it? Thus, other related questions come to mind: Could it be that the Sabbath law was an unjust law or that its value is outdated and likely abandoned? Are the churches who observe it, right or wrong? Have they grasped the essential liberating aspect of its observance or they only know the legalistic formalism?
A Case Study of the Sabbath: Arbitrating Three Positions
My goal in this paper is to examine each of the three main positions one by one with attention to exegesis of key texts in order to determine how they put together their biblical theology. I will arbitrate between these views and reach the conclusion that the Fulfilled Sabbath is the most accurate position to describe how the New Testament authors understand the Sabbath.