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Tonstad, Sigve.

The lost meaning of the Seventh Day / Sigve K. Tonstad. - Berrien Springs, Mich. : Andrews University Press, c2009. - xiv, 575 p. : 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: Introducing the Seventh Day -- Introducing the Seventh Day -- Part II: The Seventh Day in the Old Testament -- The meanings of the beginning -- Paradise lost -- Imitation of God -- The Seventh Day and freedom -- A reluctant imperative -- The strength of time -- The social conscience of the Seventh Day -- The prophetic stake in the Sabbath -- Crossroad and countdown -- Part III" The Seventh Day in the New Testament -- The Sabbath and the healing ministry of Jesus -- The Sabbath and the Greatest Commandment -- Paul and the crisis in Galatia -- The riddle of Sabbaths in Colossians -- The rest that remains -- Part IV: Loss and retrieval : the Seventh Day in the post-biblical era -- From Sabbath to Sunday -- Irreconcilable differences : hellenism and the Sabbath -- Creation disaffirmed : the Sabbath and the Middle Ages -- Lord of the Sabbath vs. Lord of nothing -- The Sabbath and the witness of nature -- The sabbath, creation time and clock time -- The Sabbath and the lost voice of the earth -- The Sabbath and hope : creation and the new creation -- The lost meaning of the Seventh Day -- The Sabbath and the imperial ideal -- Confrontation of signs -- The spirit of the Seventh Day.

ISBN: 9781883925659 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1883925657 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009037220

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sabbath.
Seventh-Day Adventists--Doctrines.

LC Class. No.: BV125 / .T66 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 263/.1