TY - BOOK AU - Tonstad,Sigve TI - The lost meaning of the Seventh Day SN - 9781883925659 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - BV125 .T66 2009 U1 - 263/.1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Berrien Springs, Mich. PB - Andrews University Press KW - Sabbath KW - Seventh-Day Adventists KW - Doctrines N1 - 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 ER -