My seminary education began in the fall of 1980. It was shaped in many ways by the prevailing scholarship across all of the theological disciplines that had developed for Western Christians after the Second World War. New work would be done. For example, by the end of the century, liturgical scholars Paul Bradshaw and Maxwell Johnson would show that a fifty-day Easter Season was limited to a few regions of the Mediterranean world and was never as universal as we were taught.[1] It doesn’t follow that it is a bad thing, but it suggests that study and reflection should be an ongoing part of our lives.
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