The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sabbatarianism \Sab`ba*ta"ri*an*ism\, n.
The tenets of Sabbatarians.
--Bp. Ward (1673).
Wiktionary
n. The principles and practices of a Sabbatarian; the observance of the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath.
Wikipedia
Sabbatarianism may refer to:
- Sabbatarians
- First-day Sabbatarianism, one of the following:
:* Puritan Sabbatarianism, historically the first Sabbatarians, who followed the Reformed practice of the avoidance of work and recreation on the first day of the week
:* Non-Sabbatarianism, general present-day Christian application of Sabbath principles to the first day of the week (Sunday)
- Seventh-day Sabbatarianism, Christian observance of Sabbath on the seventh day of the week (Saturday)
- Jewish Sabbatarianism, Jewish observance of Sabbath on the seventh day of the week
- Subbotniks, a Russian sect categorized as Jews or Judaizing Christians
- Szekler Sabbatarians, a Transylvanian and Hungarian Unitarian religious group
- Biblical Sabbatarianism, observance of Sabbath according to the Bible
Sabbatarianism is a movement within Protestantism whose proponents advocate that certain observances, specifically enumerated in a code of behavior or law, are required for Christians to properly observe the Sabbath or Sabbath principles. Its historical origins lie in Puritan Sabbatarianism, which delineated precepts for keeping Sunday holy in observance of Sabbath commandment principles. This observance of Sunday is the purest form of first-day Sabbatarianism, a movement which diminished and largely disappeared in the 18th century, though traces and influences remain today.
Today, seventh-day Sabbatarianism is the most prominent type, a movement that generally embraces a literal reading of the Sabbath commandment that provides for both worship and rest on the seventh day of the week. Seventh-day Baptists leave most other Sabbath considerations of observance to individual conscience. The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Church of God (Seventh Day) have similar views, but maintain the original, scriptural duration as Friday sunset through Saturday sunset.
Non-Sabbatarianism is the view opposing all Sabbatarianism, declaring Christians to be free of mandates to follow such specific observances. It upholds the principle in Christian church doctrine that the church is not bound by such law or code, but is free to set in place and time such observances as uphold Sabbath principles according to its doctrine: to establish a day of rest, or not, and to establish a day of worship, or not, whether on Saturday or on Sunday or on some other day. It includes all Catholics and Orthodox, and most Protestant denominations.
Usage examples of "sabbatarianism".
There is a medium between the rigid Sabbatarianism of our ancestors and the absolute waste of the day of rest in mere pleasure and frivolity.
Ptolemaism, Calvinism, anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism and sumptuary legislation.
Age has more charity for these incomplete yet high-souled characters, whose worst real vice is timidity, and who are ultimately punished by general ridicule for their intellectual sins -- sins like Ptolemaism, Calvinism, anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism and sumptuary legislation.
Age has more charity for these incomplete yet high--souled characters, whose worst real vice is timidity, and who are ultimately punished by general ridicule for their intellectual sins--sins like Ptolemaism, Calvinism, anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism and sumptuary legislation.