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The origins of feasts, fasts, and seasons in early Christianity
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- Creator
- Paul F. Bradshaw & Maxwell E. Johnson
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 222 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814662441, 0814662447, 9780281060542, 0281060541
- OCLC
- ocn681481648
- "A Pueblo book."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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: Wednesdays and Fridays -- 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 -- January 6 in the East -- January 6 in the West -- Advent -- The first martyrs and saints -- Mary: devotion and feasts