The
Sabbatarian Context
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NEW! item added March 13, 2013
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General
Background
Information on Sabbatarianism
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The
term
Sabbatarian
generally
refers Christians who observe the Sabbath from sundown Friday to
sundown Saturday rather than Sunday and/or those who follow of the
Mosaic laws and traditions as a dominant part of the group's religious
practices and observances. However, use of the term can be expanded to
refer to non-Christian religious groups (including Jews) that follow
similar tenants.
The Russian Subbotniki who emerged from a Christian background that are
the focus of this web site most certainly fall within the broader
categorization of Sabbatarians. However the Sabbatarian phenomenon is
not unique to Russian sectarianism. The movement is quite prominent in
Europe and America. Included here are Seventh Day Adventists, Seventh
Day Baptists, various Churches of God among others.
This section of the Subbotniki Information Exchange web site
is dedicated to exploring and understanding general information
relating to Sabbatarianism in order to place the Subbotniki within this
context.
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To begin with, we can read some of the various on-line definitions of
Sabbatarianism. The definition on EncyclopediaBritanica.com
presents the more narrow Christian context while Wikipedia
discusses the broader perspective.
The New Advent Catholic
Encyclopedia compares and contrasts Judaizers and Sabbatarians, Sabbatarianism
within these two articles on its web site.
Another interesting perspective is provided on a web site on anonymous
origin TheSabatarianNetwork (no
affiliation with this web site) dedicated to the topic from the group's
own perspective.
Although the term Sabbatarian may be found in material referenced in
other sections of the Subbotniki Information Exchange web site, we have
gathered here those articles where the general topic of Sabbatarians
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Material
from
General Sources
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История
соблюдающих
субботу на Руси History of
Saturday
Observers in Russia (Translation
in-progress)
E. V. Zaitsev, Dean,
Department of Theology, Zaokskoi Spiritual Academy Means and Similarity,
No.2 (2), 1993, pages 44-50.
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Sabbatarianismo (o sabatismo) e
semisabbatarianismo (XVII secolo) in Italian
Dizionario
di eresie, eretici, dissidenti religiosi, confessioni cristiane non
cattoliche, nuovi movimenti religiosi di ispirazione cristiana:
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Material
from
Ambassador College & Worldwide Church of God |
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In Search of
Thyatira
By Robert J. Thiel
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“...contact with
Sabbatarians
from Eastern European countries including Romania and the Subbotniki
from Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan and Siberia...The Sabbatarians still
exist, both in Transylvania and Hungary...in Transylvania three
different groups of Sabbath-keepers....”
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Church History, Notes-Lecture 22:
“Lollards
/ Anabaptists / Sabbatarians” |
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History of
the Church of God (Out of the
Shadows)
Part 8 of an series that appeared in the Worldwide Church of God's monthly
magazine The Plain Truth
that was transcribed to the British-Israel Church of God web site which
includes a section on The
Sabbath in Central Europe with references to Judaizers and
Subbotniki in a historical context.
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"... We have
shown in this series of the history of the
Church of God, that there have always been groups of scattered,
often persecuted, Christians apart from the mainstream Church.
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We have seen that Eastern Europe was the
dwelling place of some of the
secluded believers of the past. .... Our primary source of knowledge of
these Christian Sabbath keepers is The Jewish Quarterly Review, July
1890 edition. An article by I. Abrahams and C.G. Montefiore discusses
the part the seventh-day Sabbath plays in different religions.....
Sabbath-keeping Christians spread as far north as Russia.
Here's what The Jewish Quarterly Review says
about them: "As regards
the Russian Sabbath-observers, the so-called Sobotniki or Subbotniki,
we have to depend for an account of their origin and present condition,
on a few extremely scanty notices."They belong to the Russian sect,
Molokani or milk-drinkers, one of the various sects that arose, during
the sixteenth century, in those provinces of Southern Russia which were
at that time under the supremacy of the Polish crown, all of which
sects displayed a Judaizing tendency.
"The Molokani, so runs the account given by a
Russian chronicler,
observed the Sabbath and had their children circumcised.... In the
second half of the eighteenth century, their number in the first-named
government had grown to 5,000 souls. By keeping their doctrines secret,
they escaped persecution, till they were betrayed in 1769, and made to
suffer oppression from the State" (pages 466-467) ...."
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Sabbatarians
Around
the World
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Hungary
and
Transylvania |
| The Sabbatarians of Hungary NEW! added March 13, 2013
by W. Bacher, The Jewish Quarterly Review, July 1890 |
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Researcher
visits descendants of Transylvanian Sabbatarians
The Journal: News of the
Churches of God, Issue 48 |
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Spiritual
Jews of Szekler Jerusalem:
A Four-Centuries History of
Transylvanian Szekler (Székely)
Sabbatarianism.
Research by Professor Dr. Judit Gellérd, Boston
University, School of Theology — Fall 2000 |
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Russia |
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This
Russian link below is form a domain named subbotniki.mylivepage.ru
which appears to deal with the history and current events of a
Christian family with a Tambov origins - with many family photographs.
СТРАНИЦЫ / Общая
/ ЕЩЁ
ИСТОРИЯ:
ЗАПОМНИТЕ
ЛЮБОВЬ
НАЧИНАЕТСЯ С НЕОСУЖДЕНИЯ, МИР НАМ БРАТЬЯ И СЁСТРЫ !!!
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Ukraine |
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- Vinogradiv, Khusk
(2,500) Trans-carpathia province
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Subbotniki
carrying
out ‘good works’ in Transcarpathia (PDF)
Subbotniki
carrying out ‘good works’ in Transcarpathia (HTML)
Article in 3 formats by Bonne
A. Rook, writer from Netherlands.
Subbotniki in
western Ukraine predated European Protestants and "...Sabbatarians in
Germany ..are almost all related to the Subbotniki and Szombatosok in Hungary, Romania,
Ukraine, Russia,
Kazakhstan and
other former Soviet republics,..." The Subbotnik
pastor Vasili
Polytschko from Vynogradow tells how they stopped vandalism and hate by
converting their former police building into a soup-kitchen and
religious school for neglected kids. 3 photos. Donations accepted for
their ministry: "Light of Love".
Map of Transcarpathia
(find Vynohradiv, Khusk). Map
covering
eastern parts of Transcarpathia (Khust, Vynohradiv, ...)
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United
States
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The Hunt
Family of West Virginia
See section titled: THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS,
SHABBAT, & PROPHETIC MANIFESTATIONS
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The Dutch
Connection of the Pilgrim Fathers (No. 264)
Christian
Churches of God Wooten, ACT Australia (1998)
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NOTE: The views
represented by the content of external links contained or referenced on
this web site are not necessarily those of the Subbotniki.net web site
coordinators but are included only to present the wide range of views
surrounding the Subbotniki so that all this information can be viewed
in context. |
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