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Redeeming The Time: Sabbath Observance For The Christian Minister, Chase Franklin
Redeeming The Time: Sabbath Observance For The Christian Minister, Chase Franklin
The Asbury Journal
In a world impacted by COVID-19, Christian clergy have reevaluated how their time is spent in response to new challenges. Rabbi Abraham Heschel, augmented by the work of Walter Brueggemann and Marva Dawn, provided guidance to focus more on the realm of the spirit and less on the physical world. This is achieved through a renewed dedication to Sabbath observance. The Sabbath is the consecrated day where both God and people find rest from their labors. Because clergy work to help others observe the Sabbath, they must be willing to think outside the box to observe their own.
The Christian Debate On Same-Sex Marriage And Taylor’S Immanent And Transcendent Goods: Lessons From Adventist Approaches, David J. Hamstra
The Christian Debate On Same-Sex Marriage And Taylor’S Immanent And Transcendent Goods: Lessons From Adventist Approaches, David J. Hamstra
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Arguments made for and against affirming same-sex marriage in Christian communities rely on typical moral background preconceptions about immanent and transcendent goods identified by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age. Arguments made only in terms of marriage’s immanent goods have the potential to diminish the plausibility of a uniquely Adventist way of imagining the transcendent good: apocalyptic consciousness focused on the imminent-immanent restoration of Eden by Jesus Christ following the second coming. Comparing marriage to divergent sets of Sabbath-keeping practices—those that provide benefits exclusive to this world and those that aim at goods beyond this world—foregrounds the availability of …
Faithful Witness In Work And Rest, William Schumacher
Faithful Witness In Work And Rest, William Schumacher
Concordia Journal
Faithful Christian witness in work starts with the value of the work itself, in its own right, not as a means to some other end or a pretense for some specifically “religious” agenda.
The Understanding And Practice Of Sabbath, Barbara Cordelia Hart Yorks
The Understanding And Practice Of Sabbath, Barbara Cordelia Hart Yorks
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Sanctuary In Time : The Effect Of Sabbath Keeping On The Lives Of Missionaries, Cynthia Shomo North
Sanctuary In Time : The Effect Of Sabbath Keeping On The Lives Of Missionaries, Cynthia Shomo North
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.