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Heresy And Heortology In The Early Church: Arianism And The Emergence Of The Triduum, Martin F. Connell
Heresy And Heortology In The Early Church: Arianism And The Emergence Of The Triduum, Martin F. Connell
Theology Faculty Publications
The Triduum, the three-day liturgy of Easter — from Holy Thursday evening through Easter Sunday — has been so common an experience of the Christian liturgical year that it is difficult to imagine a time when the Triduum was not. But for at least the first three centuries of Christian worship, this annual celebration of Easter was only one rite, a single grand annual assembly of confessors, and soon-to-be confessors, embracing the life of God incarnate in Jesus Christ and in the members of the community. The theology of this unitive rite took in all aspects of the redemption wrought …