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The origins of feasts, fasts, and seasons in early Christianity / Paul F. Bradshaw & Maxwell E. Johnson.
Van Pelt - Yarnall Collection BX5141.A1 A6 no.86
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradshaw, Paul F.
- Series:
- Alcuin Club collections ; no. 86.
- Alcuin Club collections ; 86
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fasts and feasts--History.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 222 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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
- The quartodeciman celebration
- The date of the festival
- The development of the triduum
- Pentecost: the great fifty days
- Initiation at Easter
- The emergence of Lent and Holy Week
- Three weeks and forty days
- The development of Lent
- Calculating the forty days
- Holy week in Jerusalem
- December 25: two competing theories
- 6 January in the East
- 6 January in the West
- Advent
- The first martyrs and saints
- Mary: devotion and feasts.
- Notes:
- "A Pueblo book."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780814662441
- 0814662447
- 9780281060542
- 0281060541
- OCLC:
- 681481648
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