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
from Judaism by the first Christians, this was centered on Sunday
rather than the sabbath. As the early Church established its
identity, the days of the week set aside for fasting came to be
different from those customary among the Jews. There also existed
an annual cycle related to Easter.
Drawing upon the latest research, the authors track the
development of the Church's feasts, fasts, and seasons, including
the sabbath and Sunday, Holy Week and Easter, Christmas and
Epiphany, and the feasts of the Virgin Mary, the martyrs, and other
saints.
"Pal F. Bradshaw is professor of liturgy at the University of
Notre Dame, USA, an honorary canon of the Diocese of Northern
Indiana, and a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey. He has written or
edited more than twenty books on the subject of Christian worship,
together with over ninety essays or articles in periodicals. A
former president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and
the international Societas Liturgica, he was also editor-in-chief
of the journal "Studia liturgica" from 1987 to 2005."
"Maxwell E. Johnson is professor of liturgy at the University of
Notre Dame, USA, and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America. His numerous publications are on the origins and
development of early Christian liturgy as well as on current
ecumenical theological questions, especially among Roman Catholics,
Anglicans, and Lutherans. He is the author and/or editor of over
fifteen books and seventy essays and articles in books and
journals. He is also a member of the North American Academy of
Liturgy, Societas Liturgica, and the Society of Oriental
Liturgy."
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