The Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study: The Church Year and Kalendar, by John Dowden, D.D
by John Dowden
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dowden, John, 1840-1910
- Title
- The Church Year and Kalendar
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BV: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Practical theology, Worship
- Subject
- Church year
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60936
- Release Date
- December 16, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE CHURCH YEAR AND KALENDAR
- 2.NOTE BY THE EDITORS
- 3.CONTENTS — PLATES
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 6.CHAPTER I THE WEEK — The Week and the Lord’s Day. — The Sabbath (Saturday). — Wednesday and Friday.
- 7.CHAPTER II DAYS OF THE MARTYRS
- 8.CHAPTER III THE LORD’S NATIVITY: THE EPIPHANY: THE FESTIVALS WHICH IN EARLY TIMES FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY ON THE NATIVITY — The festivals of the days immediately following Christmas.
- 9.CHAPTER IV OTHER COMMEMORATIONS OF EVENTS IN THE LORD’S LIFE. PENTECOST
- 10.CHAPTER V FESTIVALS OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN — I. Western Kalendars. — II. The Orthodox Church of the East.
- 11.CHAPTER VI FESTIVALS OF THE APOSTLES, THE EVANGELISTS, AND OF OTHER PERSONS NAMED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. OCTAVES AND VIGILS
- 12.CHAPTER VII SEASONS OF PREPARATION AND PENITENCE — Advent — The Fast preceding Easter (Lent) — Other Special Times of Fasting — I. Western Church—The three fasts called ‘Quadragesima’; Rogation Days; the Four Seasons. — II. Eastern Churches.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII WESTERN MEDIAEVAL KALENDARS: MARTYROLOGIES
- 14.CHAPTER IX EASTER AND THE MOVEABLE COMMEMORATIONS — I. Paschal Controversies prior to the Council of Nicaea. — II. The Council of Nicaea and the Easter Controversy. — The Gregorian Reform. — Leading Features of the Gregorian Reform — The adoption of the New Style.
- 15.CHAPTER X THE KALENDAR OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE EAST — I. Immoveable commemorations. — II. The Dominical Kalendar of the Orthodox Church of the East.
- 16.APPENDIX I THE PASCHAL QUESTION IN THE CELTIC CHURCHES
- 17.APPENDIX II NOTE ON THE KALENDARS OF THE SEPARATED CHURCHES OF THE EAST
- 18.APPENDIX III NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE KALENDAR OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SINCE THE REFORMATION
- 19.FOOTNOTES
- 20.INDEX
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