A brief history of Sunday :
González, Justo L.,
A brief history of Sunday : from the New Testament to the new creation / Justo L. González. - 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages)
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.
9781467446938 1467446939
Sabbath.
Sunday--History.
Sunday.
RELIGION / Holidays / Christian
History.
Electronic books.
BV111.3 / .G66 2017eb
263/.309
A brief history of Sunday : from the New Testament to the new creation / Justo L. González. - 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages)
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.
9781467446938 1467446939
Sabbath.
Sunday--History.
Sunday.
RELIGION / Holidays / Christian
History.
Electronic books.
BV111.3 / .G66 2017eb
263/.309
