The Apocryphal Sunday
Title | The Apocryphal Sunday PDF eBook |
Author | Uta Heil |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | 547 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Apocryphal books |
ISBN | 1506491073 |
The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broadly received Letter from Heaven. This volume presents versions of this letter together with other texts, partly based on a new edition, including introduction, translation, and commentary.
The Apocryphal Sunday
Title | The Apocryphal Sunday PDF eBook |
Author | Uta Heil |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Total Pages | 510 |
Release | 2023-10-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506491081 |
A range of apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity points to the importance of Sunday as a holiday for baptized Christians. First and foremost is the so-called Letter from Heaven, which has experienced a broad and long-lasting reception up to modern times, although it was also criticized as a forgery from its beginning. Unfortunately, these texts have not received sufficient attention so far. This volume presents various versions of the Letter from Heaven, as well as other texts (the pseudepigraphic Acts of the Synod of Caesarea; pseudepigraphic sermons of Eusebius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, and Basil of Caesarea; passages from the Didascalia or Diataxis of Jesus Christ; the Second Apocryphal Apocalypse of John; the Visio Pauli; a sermon of Sophronius of Jerusalem; and the Apocalypse of Anastasia), together with a translation and commentary. An introduction tells the story of this letter and integrates it and the other texts into the cultural history of Sunday. It becomes clear that Sunday as a day of rest and a feast day was not in the foreground of the development of an ecclesiastical festival calendar for a long time, although Emperor Constantine enacted a law on holiday rest on Sunday in 321 CE. Sunday, rather, marks the end of the Christianization of time and the calendar, when Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and martyrs' feasts were already taken for granted. The authors of these texts obviously wanted to accelerate this process, which is why an anonymous person even resorted to presenting Christ himself as the author of this letter. Here, severe punishments are threatened to all who do not observe Sunday, who work as if it were a weekday, and who skip worship. The broad tradition shows that the letter was read and distributed despite all the criticism, and was even turned into an early form of a chain letter.
The Christian Remembrancer
Title | The Christian Remembrancer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany
Title | The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 828 |
Release | 1829 |
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The officiating minister, and the preliminary rubrics, &c. 2d ed. 1860
Title | The officiating minister, and the preliminary rubrics, &c. 2d ed. 1860 PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Pinnock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Church decoration and ornament |
ISBN |
The Laws and Usages of the Church and the Clergy
Title | The Laws and Usages of the Church and the Clergy PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Pinnock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1860 |
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The searcher searched; or The rev. H. Carpenter ... confronted with the truth [in reply to his work, the rev. E. Mellor's bicentenary statements examined].
Title | The searcher searched; or The rev. H. Carpenter ... confronted with the truth [in reply to his work, the rev. E. Mellor's bicentenary statements examined]. PDF eBook |
Author | Enoch Mellor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 70 |
Release | 1862 |
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