Divine Rest for Human Restlessness: A Theological Study of the Good News of the Sabbath for Today
Overview
How can one find inner peace in this restless, tension-filled society? In Divine Rest for Human Restlessness, Samuele Bacchiocchi argues that the values of the biblical Sabbath provide a divine remedy not only to personal stress, but also to marital tension and competitive pressures—even mitigating certain ecological crises. Divine Rest for Human Restlessness is written in a simple devotional style and includes numerous illustrations. It is designed to help believers discover how to make Sabbath-keeping a joyful celebration of God’s creative and redemptive love.
Top Highlights
“The themes of the Sabbath, as we shall study them, encompass creation, redemption and final restoration; the past, the present and the future; man, nature and God.” (Pages 14–15)
“In other words, it serves to explain not why man should rest but rather how God felt about His creation: He regarded it as complete and perfect, and to acknowledge it—God stopped.” (Pages 83–84)
“Its function within that event is to celebrate the completion of creation and the inauguration of human history, or we might say, to celebrate the Good News of Human Roots.” (Page 17)
“Such a reaction is indeed justifiable but it does not also justify the doing away with a precept because some pervert it.” (Page 31)
“man was to experience physical, mental and spiritual renewal and enrichment.” (Page 29)
- Title: Divine Rest for Human Restlessness: A Theological Study of the Good News of the Sabbath for Today
- Author: Samuele Bacchiocchi
- Series: Biblical Perspectives
- Volume: 2
- Publishers: Pontifical Gregorian University Press, Biblical Perspectives
- Print Publication Date: 1998
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sabbath
- Resource ID: LLS:DVNRSTRSTLSSNSS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:49:13Z