Sacred Name Movement
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The Sacred Name Movement (SNM) is a movement within Adventism concerned with emphasizing the use of the Hebrew name of God.[1] Influenced by Clarence Orvil Dodd, the movement considers the use of God's name as important as the Jewish festivals. SNM believers also generally observe many of the Old Testament laws and ceremonies such as the Seventh-day Sabbath, Torah festivals, and kashrut food laws.[2] The movement also rejects the doctrine of the Trinity as unbiblical.[3]
History[edit]
The Sacred Name Movement arose in the early 20th century out of the Church of God (Seventh Day) movement. The movement was influenced by Joseph Franklin Rutherford after he changed the name of the main branch of the Bible Student movement to Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931.[4] C. O. Dodd, a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day) who began to keep the Jewish festivals (including Passover) in 1928, adopted sacred name doctrines in the late 1930s.[5] To promote his views, Dodd began to publish The Faith magazine in 1937.[5] American religious scholar J. Gordon Melton wrote, "No single force in spreading the Sacred Name movement was as important as The Faith magazine."[6]
Sacred Name Bibles[edit]
Angelo Traina, a disciple of Dodd, undertook the production of a Sacred Name edition of the Bible, publishing the Holy Name New Testament in 1950 and the Holy Name Bible in 1962, both based on the King James Version, but with some names and words changed to Hebraic forms, such as "God" to "Elohim", "LORD" to "Yahweh" and "Jesus" to "Yahshua".[7] Other Sacred Name Bibles have since been produced, and most Sacred Name Movement denominations use a Sacred Name Bible.
See also[edit]
- Christian views on the Old Covenant
- Christian Zionism
- Ebionites
- Holy Name of Jesus
- Imiaslavie
- Judaizers
- Messianic Judaism
References[edit]
- ^ Melton 82-83.
- ^ Frederickson 2004.
- ^ Clarke, Peter. Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. p. 543.
- ^ Melton 83.
- ^ a b Hughey, Sam, A History of the True Church, The Reformed Reader, archived from the original on 19 February 2009, retrieved 7 January 2009
- ^ Melton 476.
- ^ Mink, Gary (28 December 2001). "The Holy Name Bible". SacredName.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
Sources[edit]
- Frederickson, Nathan (2016). "Sacred Name Movement". In Kurian, George Thomas; Lamport, Mark A. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. Vol. 5. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 2003–2005. ISBN 9781442244320.
- Melton, J. Gordon (1992). Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America. New York City: Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8153-1140-9.