Toward the Origins of Christmas

by Susan Roll

Christmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly commercialized and technologized Western societies the Christmas season is celebrated with enthousiasm. Yet Christmas entered the calendar of feasts relatively late, by 336 C.E., and the reason for its introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9039005311
• ISBN13: 9789039005316
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"