Sabbath and sectarianism in seventeenth-century England / / by David S. Katz.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Katz, David S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1988.
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 pages)

This book is a study of the practical application of a religious idea: the belief in the continuing validity of the Old Testament, especially the Ten Commandments, which ordained the observance of the Sabbath on the seventh day, Saturday. The author traces the growth and development of the most radical of English Sabbath observers, those who revered the Jewish Sabbath in a Christian context. But this is not only a pre-history of the Seventh-Day Adventists. It is also the story of the remarkable persistence of a revolutionary religious belief powerful and convincing enough to survive the Restoration and continue into modern times. The Saturday-Sabbath gradually became institutionalized in a nonconformist sect in which the ideological foundation was sufficient to unite men who on political grounds should have been the most bitter of enemies, including Fifth Monarchists, millenarians, neutrals, and Royalists alike. That those men and their followers could amicably join forces after the Restoration is testimony to the power of religious ideas which might overshadow the political affiliations of the civil war.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / David S Katz -- CHAPTER ONE: SABBATARIANISM AND SATURDAY-SABBATARIANISM -- CHAPTER TWO: THE CASE OF THE FALSE JEW AND AFTER -- CHAPTER THREE: DR PETER CHAMBERLEN AND THE FRUITS OF FAILURE -- CHAPTER FOUR: SABBATARIAN NON-CONFORMITY IN RESTORATION ENGLAND -- CHAPTER FIVE: ENGLISH AMERICA: SABBATARIANS, QUAKERS, FREEMASONS AND JEWS -- CHAPTER SIX: EPILOGUE: THROUGH THE HUTCHINSONIANS TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS -- INDEX.