A Sunday manifesto: what to do with that day of rest.(Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl )(Book review)

From: The Washington Monthly | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl By Craig Harline Doubleday, 450 pp.

Is it a vain, demanding, aggrandizing god who demands a whole day every week be devoted to him? Or is it a modest, self-effacing god who wants just one day's worship every seven, and lets poor mortals get off their knees and go to work the other six? Is it an abundant, generous planet that allows its inhabitants a day of leisure (because Saturday, let's face it, is for schlepping the kids to soccer practice and standing on line at the Home Depot), or is a stern, withholding ...

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