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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity

by Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson

A survey of current scholarship on the early development of Sunday, Easter, Pentecost, Lent, Christmas and saints' days. The authors weigh competing theories about how the liturgical year took shape.

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