The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity

by Maxwell Johnson and Paul F. Bradshaw

Book Overview

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. In early Christianity, the fundamental cycle was that of the seven-day week. Taken over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814662447
• ISBN13: 9780814662441
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"