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"If one contemplates the pressure that our economic and industrial institutions are exerting to obtain maximum utilization of industrial plants - by programming work shifts to ignore any festivity -, it is easy to comprehend how the pattern transmitted to us of the seven day week, with its recurring day of rest and worship, could undergo radical changes." - Pg 9-10, - economic pressures |
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Abraham Joshua Heschel - Our modern life has caused radical transformations.
adoration of God - Adoration of God on a certain day of the week is common to Christian and Jewish worship.
Hebrew history - The week, a seven day cycle of six working days and one day for worship, is the Hebrew historical legacy to the world.
holy Sabbath - The 'holy Sabbath' is a Biblical idea of stopping secular activity to worship God and focus on being generous to the needy.
leisure time - Leisure time today is more abundant than in Biblical times.
Lord's Day - "Introduction - The Present Crisis of the Lord's Day" is the first chapter and section in the book "From Sabbath To Sunday."
sanctification of the Lord's Day - The sanctification of the Lord's day is changed in modern society because of increased leisure time.
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Quotations from our authors:
"It is also the hope that earnest readers may be stimulated through a better understanding of the meaning of God's holy day to search for a deeper fellowship with the 'Lord of the Sabbath' (Mark 2:28)." - Pg. 16 - Lord of the Sabbath
"Even if the sabbatical materials of the Gospels represent later reflections of the Christian community (which to us is inadmissible), this point would not diminish their historical value. They would still constitute a valuable source for studying the attitude of the primitive Church toward the Sabbath." pg 18,19 - primitve Church, attitude towards Sabbath
"Tertullian uses the Latin equivalent 'dominicus dies' in De oratione 23 and De corona 3. This became the official designation for Sunday in the Latin languages (cf. domenica, dimanche)." - domenica
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