The Liberation of Christmas

by Richard A. Horsley

Book Overview

Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical basis and to see in them illustrations of the particular theologies of Matthew and Luke. Nonbiblical scholarship sees in these narratives only an adaptation of traditional folklore themes relating to the birth of the hero. This leaves the ordinary Christian in a vacuum that the mass media and other commercial interests are only too anxious to fill. 'Liberating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597525758
• ISBN13: 9781597525756
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"