‘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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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 608-648 |
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