Holy Bible … Nanny’s Copy
The Layman’s Parallel New Testament
Holy Bible 1611 King James Version
The Book of Common Prayer
Luther’s Small Catechism
Pictorial History of Catholicism
The World’s Great Religion,
Vols. I, II, & III …The Editors of Life
The Book of the Bible …
(Lists, Anecdotes, Trivia)
The Reader’s Digest Book of
Christmas
Norman Rockwell’s Christmas
Book
A Christmas Treasury …
Monica Peterson
It may seem rather infantile, and even sometimes ambiguous, but I like to think of Christmas as kind of like religious training wheels. Of course its deepest roots are Christian, but it has a foot in paganism, in the sense that it has baptised and preserved what is best in winter festivals. As such it can be an enticing bridge to belief. Although many may shallowly equate the existence of Jesus to the myths accrued to 'Santa Claus', there does remain a rock-bottom historicity that cannot be easily dismissed.
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