Sunday observance in the Christian West was an important
religious issue from late Antiquity until at least the early
twentieth century. In England the subject was debated in Parliament
for six centuries. During the reign of Charles I disagreements
about Sunday observance were a factor in the Puritan flight from
England. In America the Sunday question loomed large in the nation
s newspapers. In the nineteenth century, it was the lengthiest of
our national debates outlasting those of temperance and slavery. In
a more secular age, many writers have been haunted by the afterlife
of Sunday. Wallace Stevens speaks of the peculiar life of Sundays.
For Kris Kristofferson there s something in a Sunday, / Makes a
body feel alone.
From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the
Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary
debates about Sunday worship, Stephen Miller explores the
fascinating history of the Sabbath. He pays particular attention to
the Sunday lives of a number of prominent British and American
writers and what they have had to say about Sunday. Miller examines
such observant Christians as George Herbert, Samuel Johnson, Edmund
Burke, Hannah More, and Jonathan Edwards. He also looks at the
Sunday lives of non-practicing Christians, including Oliver
Goldsmith, Joshua Reynolds, John Ruskin, and Robert Lowell, as well
as a group of lapsed Christians, among them Edmund Gosse, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Wallace Stevens. Finally, he
examines Walt Whitman s complex relationship to Christianity. The
result is a compelling study of the changing role of religion in
Western culture.
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