Sabbath in Crisis / Ratzlaff, Dale / (PB/1990-1990/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is good condition.*

This work is accessible to the ordinary reader. If some of the nuances of technical scholarship have been left out, the open and inductive approach of Mr. Ratzlaff has its own merits, and will prove beneficial to many readers simply trying to make sense of what the Bible says about the Sabbath. The summaries at the end of each chapter will help the reader remember just where he or she is in the argument.

Mr. Ratzlaff also lets us in on his thought processes and commitments. Though they would be distracting in technical scholarship, they are of particular interest in this case because the author is in fact disclosing his sobering pilgrimage away from Seventh-day Adventism.

The net effect of this book is to open up options in the minds of ordinary Christians, options that have often been closed down by accepted traditions that must be weighed by Scripture, not simply assumed to reflect Scripture. But that does not mean Mr. Ratzlaff is simply iconoclastic, or fundamentally innovative. Biblical interpretation too committed to iconoclasm or innovation should be viewed with a certain amount of reserve. The fact of the matter is that in its main lines, the author's position is not far removed from the Heidelberg Confession, or from the position of many English Baptists in the 1640s and 1650s.

Preface
1. Why Study the Sabbath?
2. The Seventh Day in Genesis
3. The Old Covenant
4. Shadows of Hope
5. The New Covenant
6. Jubilee Sabbath
7. The Lord of the Sabbath
8. Sabbath Conflicts
9. The Paradox of Sabbath Law
10. The Sabbath in Acts
11. Sabbath in the Epistles
12. New Covenant Documents and Signs
13. A Better Law
14. Jesus: the Law's Fulfillment
15. The Rest That Remains
16. The First Day of the Week
17. Sabbath in Crisis
18. Sabbath Arguments
19. The Sabbath and Seventh-day Adventists
20. Assembling and Resting
21. The Testing Truth
Scriptural Index

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