Synopses & Reviews
James Dennison examines the question of the supreme Christian holy day, the Sabbath. He demonstrates how the Sabbath emerged from the imprecision of the sixteenth century to become a celebrated cause in pre-Revolutionary England. Dennison shows that the Puritan view of the Lord's Day became the dominant view-both theological and practically-by the latter half of the seventeenth century despite the challenges it faced from the medieval position of the Court Party and the Seventh-day Sabbatarians.