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Author: Maud Petersham
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780385158411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassages from the King James edition recounting Christ's nativity and childhood are illustrated to show how Palestine and Egypt may have looked 2000 years ago.
Author: Nicholas Bakewell
Publisher: Santa & the Christ Child.
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780961628604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Child who comes to help Santa in his time of need reminds us all that Christmas is the birthday of the Lord.
Author: Mary Dzon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-25
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0812293703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or formidable and powerful? Not finding sufficient information in the Gospels, which are almost completely silent about Jesus' childhood, medieval Christians turned to centuries-old apocryphal texts for answers. In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon demonstrates how these apocryphal legends fostered a vibrant and creative medieval piety. Popular tales about the Christ Child entertained the laity and at the same time were reviled by some members of the intellectual elite of the church. In either case, such legends, so persistent, left their mark on theological, devotional, and literary texts. The Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx urged his monastic readers to imitate the Christ Child's development through spiritual growth; Francis of Assisi encouraged his followers to emulate the Christ Child's poverty and rusticity; Thomas Aquinas, for his part, believed that apocryphal stories about the Christ Child would encourage youths to be presumptuous, while Birgitta of Sweden provided pious alternatives in her many Marian revelations. Through close readings of such writings, Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends throughout the Middle Ages and demonstrates the significant impact that the Christ Child had in shaping the medieval religious imagination.
Author: Elissa Bjeletich
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Published: 2016-12-22
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ISBN-13: 9781936773305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dandi Daley Mackall
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780758600219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe miraculous events associated with the birth of Jesus are unfolded through the thoughts and experiences of the Virgin Mother.
Author: Linda Schlafer
Publisher:
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780829416060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis meaningful children's Christmas book offers a lesson in the importance of generosity and sacrifice during a season where so much of the focus is on receiving. Ages 4 to 8.
Author: Theresa M. Kenney
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0802098940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.
Author: Theresa M. Kenney
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1487539622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ’s infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists – many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests – they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated language, and their concerns were deeply theological as well as poetic. In an age of religious controversy, their poems had controversial elements, and because these poems were mostly intended for private use and limited circulation, they were not generally singable hymns of public celebration of Christ’s birth. However far from dry academic pieces, these poems offer a wide variety of approaches to both their subject, the infant Jesus, and the means of presenting it. All Wonders in One Sight examines the ways in which early modern English poets understood and accomplished the poetic task of representing Christ as both Child and God. Focusing on the intellectual and theological content of the poems as well as the devotional aims of the poets, Theresa M. Kenney aims to reveal their understandings of divine immanence and the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Author: Glenn Edward Sadler
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Don Richardson
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2005-08-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1441266968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Cannibals to Christ-Followers--A True Story In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The "peace child" became the secret to unlocking a value system that had existed through generations. This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and a social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel has impacted the Sawi people, this missionary classic will inspire a new generation of readers who need to hear this remarkable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.
