Category: Sabbath Timeline

During the Protestant Reformation, John Eck, a German Scholastic theologian and Catholic prelate, was among Martin Luther’s most vocal theological opponents. Eck taunted Luther with…

Many Ethiopians had kept the Sabbath for centuries throughout the middle ages. The Ethiopians received the Eastern form of doctrine in the fourth century. The…

The twelfth-century Pasaginians of Western Europe observed the seventh-day Sabbath. A Catholic document from about 1200 AD describes the Pasaginians as “opposing us in general,…

From the end of the eighth century to the twelve century, the Athinganio, or “touch nots” of Phrygia in Asia Minor, were accused of being…

Early Christians in the British Isles observed the seventh-day Sabbath, at least until the eleventh century when Roman influence led to a marginalization of Sabbath…

Around the year 600 AD, Pope Gregory I denounced as preachers of Antichrist those who were teaching in Rome that work should not be done…

The Roman emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 AD. In 321 AD he passed a law for the protection of Sunday as a day of…

A growing number of Christians observed both Sabbath and Sunday during the fourth and fifth centuries. The so-called Apostolic Constitutions from the fourth century taught…

The anti-Jewish sentiments found in the writings of some early church fathers was simultaneously demonstrated in a gradual distancing of Christianity from its Jewish roots.…

In the early centuries of Christianity, some church fathers wrote against the Sabbath as part of their anti-Jewish rhetoric. For example, Justin Martyr (c. 150)…