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Reviews 57 REVIEWS Willy Rordorf, Der Sonntag, Geschichte des Ruhe- und Gottes- diensttages im ältesten Christentum (Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testamentes, 43). Zürich, Zwingli Verlag, 1962. Pp. 336. Pr. Sw. Fr. 26.-. The author defended this book as a thesis in 1961 at Basel, and considers himself a pupil of O. Cullmann. It is generally accepted that the Sunday was originally not a day of rest forming a Christian counterpart to the Jewish Sabbath, but a day of Christian worship, which was practised either in the morning or in the evening. The development of the Sunday from a day of worship to a day of rest is not as logical as is often supposed. Rordorf points to the fact that the Emperor Constantine transformed the Sunday into a day of rest, but not in the first place for Christian or religious reasons, but for political ones. In later time the Church adopted this idea of the Sunday as a day of rest, though with another motivation, namely with reference to the Old Testament Sabbath commandment. As to the Christian worship on Sunday Rordorf stresses the fact that from the very origin of the Church it was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-6032
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10.1163/157007263X00522
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57 REVIEWS Willy Rordorf, Der Sonntag, Geschichte des Ruhe- und Gottes- diensttages im ältesten Christentum (Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testamentes, 43). Zürich, Zwingli Verlag, 1962. Pp. 336. Pr. Sw. Fr. 26.-. The author defended this book as a thesis in 1961 at Basel, and considers himself a pupil of O. Cullmann. It is generally accepted that the Sunday was originally not a day of rest forming a Christian counterpart to the Jewish Sabbath, but a day of Christian worship, which was practised either in the morning or in the evening. The development of the Sunday from a day of worship to a day of rest is not as logical as is often supposed. Rordorf points to the fact that the Emperor Constantine transformed the Sunday into a day of rest, but not in the first place for Christian or religious reasons, but for political ones. In later time the Church adopted this idea of the Sunday as a day of rest, though with another motivation, namely with reference to the Old Testament Sabbath commandment. As to the Christian worship on Sunday Rordorf stresses the fact that from the very origin of the Church it was

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Published: Jan 1, 1963

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