Posted on 01/12/2009 2:53:28 PM PST by Chris DeWeese
Samuele Bacchiocchi, a retired theology professor at Andrews University and one of the world’s leading proponents of the seventh-day Sabbath, died December 20, the Sabbath, following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70 years of age and resided in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
“Sam was best-known for his scholarship on the seventh-day Sabbath. He was a prolific writer, a tireless preacher, and appreciated as an energetic and passionate teacher. I’m going to miss my long-time friend and colleague,” said Keith Mattingly, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who worked alongside Bacchiocchi in the Andrews University Department of Religion and Biblical Languages.
Bacchiocchi, who spent 26 years teaching at the Seventh-day Adventist-owned university and more than 30 years lecturing worldwide about the Sabbath and its significance, was the first Protestant to attend and graduate from the doctoral program at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. It was at the “Gregoriana,” as it is known in Italian, that his studies in church history led to the publication of From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity, the English version of his doctoral thesis. The doctoral dissertation received a grade that merited his graduation “summa cum laude,” and Bacchiocchi received a gold medal for academic achievement donated by Pope Paul VI. Both were high honors, particularly for a non-Roman Catholic student at the Jesuit-run university.
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RIP.
Oh no. Does that mean Sabbath is on Sunday again? :-)
“The doctoral dissertation received a grade that merited his graduation “summa cum laude,” and Bacchiocchi received a gold medal for academic achievement donated by Pope Paul VI. Both were high honors, particularly for a non-Roman Catholic student at the Jesuit-run university.”
I bet Adventists wouldn’t be so open to a Catholic student at their universities.
The generosity of my Church never ceases to amaze me.
He was recruited.
This lack of class is not representative of the Catholic faith.
You wrote:
“He was recruited.”
Wow - My Church is so generous to recruit students who are not even Catholic to attend their university for no discernible reason other than the desire to promote good scholarship!
Thanks for proving my point.
How many Catholics do you think the SDA recruit for their schools? I bet not many.
“This lack of class is not representative of the Catholic faith.”
I demonstrated no lack of class. I merely pointed out that my Church is incredibly generous. If that strikes you as a lack of class, then too bad. I demonstrate no lack of class by knowing or saying that my Church invented universities and hospitals either. That’s just the truth.
You seem very insecure.
Again, how many Catholic scholar students have been recruited by SDA universities?
Any?
Ever?
Now, hopefully, he can ask the Saints present during the Nicean era what they thought about the issue personally.
May the Lord accept him into His Beatific Vision. Amen.
Well, they might be Catholics going in...
***Now, hopefully, he can ask the Saints present during the Nicean era what they thought about the issue personally.***
SDA people do not believe in life after death. they believe in soul sleep until the day of resurection.
I wouldn't put too much money on that bet if I were you. I attended Andrews University and knew several Catholic students. I also knew Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists and adherents to numerous Christian faiths as well. Andrews does not refuse entrance to students based on religion. They never asked me what my religion was, nor did they ever try to get me to become an Adventist.
Regarding Bacchiocchi, I never had a class with him, but I knew of him and saw him around campus several times.
You wrote:
” I wouldn’t put too much money on that bet if I were you. I attended Andrews University and knew several Catholic students.”
They were recruited? They were allowed to research a topic that was near and dear to the Catholic faith? They received a special medal from the SDA leadership?
“I also knew Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists and adherents to numerous Christian faiths as well. Andrews does not refuse entrance to students based on religion.”
Okay. And is there any similar example of what happened with Regarding Bacchiocchi in the 1960s at any SDA college with a Catholic student?
“They never asked me what my religion was, nor did they ever try to get me to become an Adventist.”
Did I ever say the case was otherwise?
“Regarding Bacchiocchi, I never had a class with him, but I knew of him and saw him around campus several times.”
I knew of him too. Never went where he taught, however.
Dr. Bacchiocchi wrote a very scholarly and definitive work on issues regarding the Sabbath in Scripture. He studied and researched his book at the Vatican University. He was likely the world’s foremost Christian scholar on the subject of the Sabbath.
“Unfortunately for the Adventist professor, an official at the university [Dr. Barbara Bergami, general secretary of the university] wrote to Dr. Korsman, and later others, that Dr. Bacchiocchi was wildly misrepresenting himself and his achievements.“Dr. Bergami wrote in June 2004 that Dr. Bacchiocchi did not graduate with high distinction (she said his grades "were not very good here"), that he received no medal from Pope Paul, that he was barred from publishing his dissertation in whole and that his work received no imprimatur.”
That said, proving the Catholic church changed the Sabbath to Sunday happens about monthly here on FR and nobody gets any awards for it. Where's my award? Huh? Where's mine? Can a brother get some love? Huh? Why they gotta keep me down? Where's my award? Oh, in heaven, that's where!
Have a good day, gents. I hope the Catholics don't hurt themselves too badly dancing on Sam's grave. :D
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