Rethinking Sabbath: An instrument of redemption – Rogel Revell

This presentation will selectively chronicle the entry and rise of Sabbath, as practice and as a theological concept, in the church. After offering a survey of Sabbath thought both in the early church and in the Reformed vein of Protestantism, a brief index of biblical perspectives on Sabbath
will be undertaken. In light of this index, the nature and extent of the church’s “Sabbath crisis” is better exhibited.

In critique of Christian tradition, Sabbath is about so much more than taking a day off each week. It is a clue, image, and map for God’s redemptive purposes in creation.

Roger Revell is a minister at St Peter’s Fireside (Anglican), a church-plant in city-centre Vancouver, BC.