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A brief history of Sunday : from the New Testament to the new creation / Justo L. González.

By: Publisher: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017Description: 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781467446938
  • 1467446939
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brief history of Sunday.DDC classification:
  • 263/.309 23
LOC classification:
  • BV111.3 .G66 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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