easter contraversy
Quartodeciman Controversy The festival of Easter or Passover is the event the liturgical year revolves around. ... Easter as defined in The American Heritage Dictionary 2nd ed. is a festival in the Christian Church commemorating the Resurrection of Christ, celebrated in the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after March 21st; the Sunday on which the festival Easter is held. This is today’s definition of Easter; back in the second and third centuries this wasn’t the case. ... In short the main controversy was whether to celebrate Easter on the Nisan 14 of annually on a Sunday. It is clear that the annual feast was not an issue, nor the festival of Easter. ... It is important to recognize that the Easter controversy has been a controversy that has spanned over centuries. ... By the Second century Rome and the majority of the churches celebrated Easter on the Sunday that followed the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan.