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Calvin’s views on the Sabbath are the subject of claim and counterclaim. This book brings together two controversial themes: Calvin’s ideas on Church/state relationships and on the Sabbath. Richard Gaffin traces the development of Calvin’s beliefs through his comments and writings. Gaffin also helps us to understand the relationship between the Ten Commandments and the New Testament. Not only...

must observe it on Saturday, often in all its Jewish strictness. This view, though it still appears in some Christian denominations, involves a virtual repudiation of the impact of Christianity on the weekly Sabbath. A second theory or, more accurately, group of theories may be described as ecclesiastical, or, as its exponents generally prefer that it be called, Dominical.4 These views all agree in maintaining that the fourth commandment and the Sabbath are strictly Mosaic in origin. They were mandated
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