Quartodeciman controversy
- Quartodeciman controversy
This term (from the Latin quartus decimus, meaning "fourteenth," along with contra-, meaning "against," and vertere, meaning "to turn") refers to a lengthy controversy in the early Church about the appropriate date for celebrating Easter. Prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Eastern Church, claiming to follow a tradition from the ApostlesJohn and Philip, celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month of Nisan, regardless of the day of the week, while the Western Church, claiming the authority of the Apostles Peter and Paul, celebrated Easter on the Sunday following the fourteenth day of the full moon of the vernal equinox. As a result, Eastern Christians sometimes celebrated theResurrection on the same day that Western Christians celebrated Good Friday.
Glossary of theological terms.
John T. Ford.
2014.
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