Sunday, March 6, 2022

Orthodoxy! and Christmas: The Shadow Library Re-Organized



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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