The “Sabbath” as a Creation Day in the Service of the “Great Transformation”

Eckholt, Margit (2024) The “Sabbath” as a Creation Day in the Service of the “Great Transformation”. Central European Theological Review. Annual Theological Journal, 2024 (1). pp. 20-42. ISSN 3057-9619

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Abstract

The article builds an approach to the Sabbath from a systematic-theological perspective. In doing so, it builds on the study by Ottilia Lukács in the sense that historical- or liberation-theological perspectives on the Sabbath are linked to the more recent creation-theological approaches; moreover, there is a strong connection between social-ethical and cultic dimensions. The term Sabbath is presented within the context of Old Testament traditions, but the New Testament perspective of Jesus of Nazareth on the preservation and fulfilment of the Sabbath is also considered, with special emphasis on the Christian Sunday. The systematic-theological interpretation is embedded a panorama of the challenges that the environmental crisis and climate change pose for society, politics and the Christian community. In this sense, the Sabbath is understood as a day of “transformation,” the observance of which in current practice can contribute to the necessary “paradigm shift,” the “cultural revolution” and “ecological conversion” promulgated by Pope Francis names it in his encyclicals Laudato si’ (2015), Veritatis gaudium (2017) and Querida Amazonia (2020).

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