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Sabbatarianism can refer to either:
- The practice of observing the time between Friday's sunset to Saturday's sunset as the Sabbath (which happens to be Judaism's Shabbat as well). By this definition, religious (usually Orthodox) Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, certain Church of God organizations, and Seventh Day Baptists are "sabbatarians".
- Strict observance of the Sabbath on Sunday, to avoid not only work but many forms of amusement. By this definition, some conservative Christians, most of them within the Reformed tradition, are "sabbatarians", believing the first day of the week or Lord's Day to be the new covenant Sabbath (the 4th commandment never having been revoked). (During the formation of Reform Judaism, there was a proposal to observe Sunday as their "Sabbath". This is not actually practiced by Reform Jews today.)
- A split from Unitarianism in Central Europe to adopt Mosaic law and customs, including the Sabbath. It was founded in Transylvania at the end of the 16th century by a Eössi András. The Unitarian Church condemned Sabbatarianism as innovation (forbidden by the Transylvanian law on religious toleration) in 1618. The last Sabbatarian congregation in Transylvania disappeared in the 19th century and the remaining Sabbatarians joined the existing Jewish communities. Sabbatarianism also expanded to Russia, where they were called Subbotniki, and to other countries. It was also practiced among Dissenters in England under the leadership of John Traske (1586-1636).
Basis for Sabbatarianism (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset)
It has been claimed, on the basis of ancient written evidence that the primitive apostolic church was Sabbatarian. (Jesus, being Jewish, observed the weekly Sabbath as well as the annual High Sabbaths, confirmed by numerous passages written in the New Testament, or what is referred to by some as the Christian Bible). Evidence confirmed by the New Testament: That the apostles were all Nomian Christians. Even Paul of Tarsus, the one apostle sent out to the Gentile world, was known to preach on the Sabbaths and even observed some of the rituals of cleansing and vow observance written of in the Old Testament (Acts 21:23). However, the Council of Jerusalem made no requirement on Gentile Christians other than the abstaining from things offered to idols, strangled, blood, and fornication. More on [ Sabbatarianism ]
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@nealc That's the good lord telling you to turn off devices & open some wine. V big on Sabbatarianism the GL, also wine & thunderbolts.
HildegardP (HildegardP) Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:50:13 -0000
@nealc That's the good lord telling you to turn off devices & open some wine. V big on Sabbatarianism the GL, also wine & thunderbolts.
A Digest of the Sabbath Question - Outline of Robert Brinsmead's Sabbatarianism Re-Examined.
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Assorted Flavors of 7th day Sabbatarians - Church links, ministries, fellowships and resources.
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Calvin in the Hands of the Philistines, or, Did Calvin Bowl on the Sabbath? - Seeks to illuminate Calvin's actual teaching on Sabbath observance and recreation by unraveling the origins of an anecdote about John Knox supposedly finding Calvin bowling on the Lord's Day.
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Mid-South Sabbatarians - Established to promote greater awareness of, and fellowship between, sabbatarians of various stripes, and to promote the biblical seventh day Sabbath.
Meta Description: [ The Mid-South Sabbatarians web site was established to promote greater awareness of, and fellowship between, sabbatarians of various stripes, and to promote the biblical seventh day Sabbath. ]
Sabbatarianism - Definition of the term. Distinguishes between strict or literal sabbatarianism, which can only apply to the seventh-day sabbath, and semisabbatarianism, which transfers the demands of the sabbath to Sunday.
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Several articles on Sabbatarianism and Semi-Sabbatarianism. A source
of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ]
Sabbatarianism Re-Examined - Robert Brinsmead explores the fallacies behind sabbatarianism in a landmark 1981 paper.
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Sabbatarians - Historical information on Sabbatarianism, in particular, the English Sabbatarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Sabbatarians, Sabbatarianism - Defines Sabbatarianism as a rigorist conflation of the Christian Sunday with the Jewish Sabbath, devotes attention to Seventh-Day Sabbatarianism as well.
Meta Description: [ Defines Sabbatarianism as a rigorist conflation of the Christian Sunday with the Jewish Sabbath, devotes attention to Seventh-Day Sabbatarianism as well ]
Sabbath Observance - 1923 article from an Ontario newspaper about the hubbub caused by a suggestion to allow children to use a municipal swimming pool during a heat wave.
The Bible Sabbath Association - Non-denominational organization to promote fellowship and cooperation between Seventh-Day Sabbath keepers. Sells the Directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups. Includes articles.
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