A brief history of Sunday : from the New Testament to the new creation / Justo L. González.
Publisher: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017Description: 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781467446938
- 1467446939
- 263/.309 23
- BV111.3 .G66 2017eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The background : pre-Christian calendars -- Before Constantine. Naming the days ; When to meet ; The significance of the first day of the week ; Christian practices on the first day of the week -- From Constantine to the end of antiquity. Constantine and the new imperial policy ; Changes in Christian worship ; Laws regarding the Lord's day ; Christian views on the Sabbath ; The middle ages. A new Sunday piety : from feast to funeral ; A day to pray and to play ; Aquinas on Sunday and Sabbath -- The reformation and beyond. The reformation ; British puritanism and the Sabbath ; Seventh-day Sabbatarianism ; The continuation of Puritan Sabbatarianism ; Secularization and renewal.
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