‘Welcome Dear Feast of Lent’: Rival Understandings of The Forty-Day Fast in Early Stuart England

Both during and after the Reformation, Lutherans and Reformed theologians alike had condemned the way in which Lent was observed within the Roman Catholic Church as a superstitious mockery of biblical fasting. As a result, most Protestant churches in Europe either ceased to observe Lent altogether,...

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Main Author: Hampton, Stephen (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2012
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 608-648
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