Contributors

Introduction

Maxwell E. Johnson

I. INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS

The Liturgical Year: Studies, Prospects, Reflections

Robert F. Taft

Liturgical Time in the Ancient Church: The State of Research

Thomas J. Talley

II. FROM SABBATH TO SUNDAY

Day of the Lord: Day of Mystery

H. Boone Porter

Sunday: The Heart of the Liturgical Year

Mark Searle

The Frequency of the Celebration of the Eucharist Throughout History

Robert F. Taft

III. FROM PASSOVER TO PASCHA

History and Eschatology in the Primitive Pascha

Thomas J. Talley

The Origins of Easter

Paul F. Bradshaw

The Three Days and the Forty Days

Patrick Regan

Veneration of the Cross

Patrick Regan

Holy Week in the Byzantine Tradition

Robert F. Taft

The Origin of Lent at Alexandria

Thomas J. Talley

Preparation for Pascha? Lent in Christian Antiquity

Maxwell E. Johnson

The Fifty Days and the Fiftieth Day

Patrick Regan

Making the Most of Trinity Sunday

Catherine Mowry LaCugna

IV. FROM PASCHA TO PAROUSIA

Constantine and Christmas

Thomas J. Talley

The Origins of Christmas: The State of the Question

Susan K. Roll

The Appearance of the Light at the Baptism of Jesus and the Origins of the Feast of Epiphany: An Investigation of Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Latin Sources

Gabriele Winkler

The Origins and Evolution of Advent in the West

Martin J. Connell

V. FROM PASCHA TO PERSONS

On Feasting the Saints

John F. Baldovin

The Marian Liturgical Tradition

Kilian McDonnell

Forgetting and Remembering the Saints

James F. White

The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary: A Lutheran Reflection

Maxwell E. Johnson

The Liturgical Year: Calendar for a Just Community

John F. Baldovin

Acknowledgments

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