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In The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day, Sigve K. Tonstad recovers the profound and foundational understanding of God that can be experienced in the seventh day. He shows that Scripture has consistently asserted that the Sabbath of Creation is the Sabbath of the whole story of how God makes right what has gone wrong in the world. Tonstad argues that the seventh day is the symbol of God’s...

to the plot that is worked out in the Bible. The New Testament reading rises from the text by virtue of the content of the text and not by some interpretative sleight of hand. Indeed, the prospect that the relationship between God and humanity will be restored is found already in Genesis, and the restoration, as it must, is configured according to the parameters by which the relationship was broken. Reading the first chapters of Genesis as a whole, we find that the seventh day is commissioned in
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