Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity

Name: Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity
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ISBN: 9780814662441

ISBN-10: 0814662447

ISBN-13: 9780814662441

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson

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The liturgical year is a relatively modern invention. The term itself only came into use in the late sixteenth century. In antiquity, Christians did not view the various festivals and fasts that they experienced as a unified whole. Instead, the different seasons formed a number of completely unrelated cycles and tended to overlap and conflict with one another. Drawing upon the latest research, the authors track the development of the Churchs feasts, fasts, and seasons, including the sabbath and Sunday, Holy Week and Easter, Christmas and Epiphany, and the feasts of the Virgin Mary, the martyrs, and other saints.

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction


Sabbath and Sunday



The Lord's day in the Apostolic age?



Continuing traces of the Sabbath in later Christian practice



Sunday in the fourth century



The Christian week: Wednesday and Friday


Easter and Pentecost



The Quartodeciman celebration



The date of the festival



The development of the triduum



Pentecost: the great fifty days



Initiation at Easter


Lent and Holy Week



The emergence of Lent and Holy Week



Three weeks and forty days



The development of Lent



Calculating the forty days



Holy Week in Jerusalem


Christmas and Epiphany



25 December: two competing theories



6 January in the East



6 January in the West



Advent


Martyrs and other saints



The first martyrs and saints



Mary: devotion and feasts


Index of modern authors


Index of ancient authors and subjects