Video: Dr Samuele Bacchiocchi - My Search for the Sabbath at a Vatican University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aKSkOUnvIk
His Book: From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity
by Samuele Bacchiocchi
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The results of this investigation are presented in From Sabbath to Sunday, which is a translation and an adaptation of his Italian doctoral dissertation, presented at and published by the Pontifical Gregorian University Press.
The investigation establishes that the change from Saturday to Sunday began approximately one century after the death of Christ, as a result of an interplay of political, social, pagan and Christian factors. The change in the day of rest and worship was not merely a change of names or of numbers, but rather a change of meaning, authority and experience. Essentially it was a change from a Holy Day into a holiday.
From Sabbath to Sunday has the distinction of being the first book written by a non-Catholic ever to be published by a Pontifical press with the Catholic imprimatur (approval). The book has already been reprinted fourteen times in English and has been translated in several languages. Hundreds of scholars of different persuasions have praised this book as a definitive treatment of the early history of the Lord’s Day...
http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/sabbath_to_sunday/
also:
http://www.amazon.com/From-Sabbath-Sunday-Investigation-Christianity/dp/1930987005
It appears that the Roman Church, based on the evidence developed from the Vatican’s own archives, claims the authority to change the Saturday to Sunday. Further, officials of the Roman Church have in the past been bold in their claim that anyone who observes Sunday has acknowledged the authority of Rome to have made the change.
The following is from:
ROME’S CHALLENGE: Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday?
Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Roman Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.
Over one hundred years ago the Catholic Mirror ran a series of articles discussing the right of the Protestant churches to worship on Sunday. The articles stressed that unless one was willing to accept the authority of the Catholic Church to designate the day of worship, the Christian should observe Saturday. Those articles are presented here in their entirety.
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from: http://biblelight.net/chalng.htm
***His Book: From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity
by Samuele Bacchiocchi
***From Sabbath to Sunday has the distinction of being the first book written by a non-Catholic ever to be published by a Pontifical press with the Catholic imprimatur (approval).***
Would you REALLY trust a man who got his book printed by the organization the SDA church considers THE BEAST of Revelation (666)? I see some irony here!