Paschal controversies

Paschal controversies

      in the Christian Church, disputes concerning the correct date for observing Easter (Greek Pascha). The earliest controversy was over the question of whether Easter should always be celebrated on a Sunday or on the actual day of the Jewish lunar month (14th of Nisan) on which the Paschal lamb was slaughtered. The latter practice, followed by the church in the Roman province of Asia, was generally condemned at the end of the 2nd century because it meant celebrating Easter when the Jews were keeping Passover.

      Later controversies concerned the different methods of calculating the Paschal moon, until in the 6th century the computations of Dionysius Exiguus were generally accepted in the West. The Celtic Church, however, did not accept this method until the 7th century (see Whitby, Synod of), and there were some difficulties in Gaul in the 8th century.

      In the Eastern Orthodox Church (Eastern Orthodoxy), Easter is often observed on a later Sunday than in the Western Church, partly because it adheres to the Julian calendar for the movable year. In the West the subject has ceased to be a matter of dispute, and the second Vatican Council (Vatican Council, Second) stated in 1963 that there was no objection in principle to observing Easter on a fixed Sunday (probably early in April).

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