The Lord’s Day

E782043

Christian religious observance liturgical term weekly holy day

The Lord’s Day is a Christian term, especially emphasized in Baptist doctrine, referring to Sunday as a weekly day of worship, rest, and commemoration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Lord's Day	1
The Lord's Day	1
The Lord’s Day canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9157389 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: The Lord’s Day
Context triple: [Baptist Faith and Message, hasSection, The Lord’s Day]

A. The Sabbath
The Sabbath is a classic work of Jewish spiritual thought by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores the sanctity of time and the meaning of sacred rest in Jewish life.
B. Presence of the Lord
"Presence of the Lord" is a blues-rock song by the supergroup Blind Faith, noted for its soulful vocals, spiritual lyrics, and Eric Clapton's expressive guitar work.
C. God Sends Sunday
God Sends Sunday is a 1931 novel by Arna Bontemps that portrays the life of a self-destructive Black jockey in the post–Civil War American South.
D. Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" is a famous 18th-century Christian Easter hymn celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, widely sung in churches across the English-speaking world.
E. A Month of Sundays
A Month of Sundays is a 1975 novel by John Updike that satirically explores faith, sexuality, and hypocrisy through the confessional diary of a disgraced minister sent to a desert rehabilitation center.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: The Lord’s Day
Target entity description: The Lord’s Day is a Christian term, especially emphasized in Baptist doctrine, referring to Sunday as a weekly day of worship, rest, and commemoration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection.

A. The Sabbath
The Sabbath is a classic work of Jewish spiritual thought by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores the sanctity of time and the meaning of sacred rest in Jewish life.
B. Presence of the Lord
"Presence of the Lord" is a blues-rock song by the supergroup Blind Faith, noted for its soulful vocals, spiritual lyrics, and Eric Clapton's expressive guitar work.
C. God Sends Sunday
God Sends Sunday is a 1931 novel by Arna Bontemps that portrays the life of a self-destructive Black jockey in the post–Civil War American South.
D. Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" is a famous 18th-century Christian Easter hymn celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, widely sung in churches across the English-speaking world.
E. A Month of Sundays
A Month of Sundays is a 1975 novel by John Updike that satirically explores faith, sexuality, and hypocrisy through the confessional diary of a disgraced minister sent to a desert rehabilitation center.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian religious observance ⓘ liturgical term ⓘ weekly holy day ⓘ
alsoCalled	Sunday ⓘ the first day of the week ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	Jesus Christ’s resurrection on the first day of the week ⓘ
commemorates	the resurrection of Jesus Christ ⓘ
contrastedWith	the Jewish Sabbath ⓘ
dayNumberInWeek	first day ⓘ
dayOfWeek	Sunday ⓘ
emphasizedIn	Baptist doctrine ⓘ Reformed theology ⓘ many evangelical churches ⓘ
frequency	weekly ⓘ
languageOfTerm	English ⓘ
linkedConcept	Christian Sabbath ⓘ Christian worship ⓘ Lord’s Supper ⓘ linked to: Mass of the Lord's Supper
liturgicalColorTypical	white in many traditions ⓘ
observedBy	Anglicans ⓘ linked to: Anglican Communion Baptists ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christians ⓘ linked to: Eastern Orthodox Christianity Methodists ⓘ linked to: Methodist churches Presbyterians ⓘ linked to: Presbyterian Roman Catholics ⓘ linked to: Roman Catholicism many Protestant denominations ⓘ
originOfTerm	early Christian usage based on Revelation 1:10 ⓘ
primaryPurpose	Christian corporate worship ⓘ commemoration of Christ’s resurrection ⓘ rest from ordinary work ⓘ worship of God ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ
scripturalBasis	1 Corinthians 16:2 ⓘ linked to: 1 Corinthians 16 Acts 20:7 ⓘ Revelation 1:10 ⓘ linked to: Book of Revelation
theologicalTheme	Christian rest in Christ ⓘ Lordship of the risen Christ ⓘ linked to: Königtum Christi new creation in Christ ⓘ
timePeriod	from early Christian church to present ⓘ
typicalPractices	celebration of the Lord’s Supper ⓘ congregational prayer ⓘ gathering for preaching ⓘ rest from secular labor ⓘ singing of hymns and psalms ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Baptist Faith and Message → hasSection → The Lord’s Day ⓘ

Dominicus → associatedWith → Lord's Day ⓘ

linked to: The Lord’s Day

Abstract of Principles → hasArticleOn → The Lord's Day ⓘ