The Story of the Christian YearAbingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... early Egypt , where the movement culminated in the complete system of the Ptolemies of Alexandria , almost contemporaneously with the rise of Christianity . This system held until Copernicus , in the fifteenth century after Christ . The ...
... early Egypt , where the movement culminated in the complete system of the Ptolemies of Alexandria , almost contemporaneously with the rise of Christianity . This system held until Copernicus , in the fifteenth century after Christ . The ...
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... early Christians than his birth . The whole proclamation of the emerging Church revolves around the victory cry , " He who was crucified is risen ! " It was natural that this primary witness of the Early Church should form its earliest ...
... early Christians than his birth . The whole proclamation of the emerging Church revolves around the victory cry , " He who was crucified is risen ! " It was natural that this primary witness of the Early Church should form its earliest ...
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... early peri- od Christianity shows in its developing calendar the reactions against both Rome and the Jews . The early hope of Jewish acceptance of the Messiah by conversion en masse waned , and was finally despaired of . The natural ...
... early peri- od Christianity shows in its developing calendar the reactions against both Rome and the Jews . The early hope of Jewish acceptance of the Messiah by conversion en masse waned , and was finally despaired of . The natural ...
Contents
TIME AND MAN | 15 |
THE JEWISH CEREMONIAL YEAR | 40 |
THE CELEBRATIONS OF PAGAN ROME | 56 |
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