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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: Elissa Bjeletich
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Published: 2016-12-22
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ISBN-13: 9781936773305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Ray Comfort
Publisher: Genesis Publishing
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974930046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"88% of children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18 never to return." Nothing is more important than where your kids will spend eternity. As a parent, you don't want to suffer the heartache of your children rebelling against their Christian upbringing. In this practical book, noted author/evangelist Ray Comfort counters the unscriptural belief that a child can be saved merely by "asking Jesus into his heart," and shares time-tested principles to help parents (and children's workers) guide their children to experience genuine salvation and avoid the pitfall of rebellion. Filled with creative ideas for family devotions, tips for safeguarding kids from harmful influences, and great suggestions for helping kids learn God's holy standard, the Ten Commandments.
Author: Stephen J. Davis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0300206607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika or “Childhood Deeds” of Jesus. In it, Jesus not only performs miracles while at play (such as turning clay birds into live sparrows) but also gets enmeshed in a series of interpersonal conflicts and curses to death children and teachers who rub him the wrong way. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities construe the past to answer this question. He explores how ancient readers would have used texts, images, places, and other key reference points from their own social world to understand the Christ child’s curious actions. He then shows how the figure of a young Jesus was later picked up and exploited in the context of medieval Jewish-Christian and Christian-Muslim encounters. Challenging many scholarly assumptions, Davis adds a crucial dimension to the story of how Christian history was created.
Author: Amy Welborn
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781616366490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An illustrated story about Bambinelli Sunday, an Italian Catholic family tradition in which hand-crafted babies ("bambinelli") destined for the Nativity scene at home are blessed by the pope in a public celebration"--
Author: Simcha Jacobovici
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-11-12
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 1605987298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells the inside story of Jesus’ social, family, and political life.The Lost Gospel takes the reader on an unparalleled historical adventure through a paradigm shifting manuscript. What the authors eventually discover is as astounding as it is surprising: the confirmation of Jesus’ marriage to Mary Magdalene; the names of their two children; the towering presence of Mary Magdalene; a previously unknown plot on Jesus’ life (thirteen years prior to the crucifixion); an assassination attempt against Mary Magdalene and their children; Jesus’ connection to political figures at the highest level of the Roman Empire; and a religious movement that antedates that of Paul—the Church of Mary Magdalene.Part historical detective story, part modern adventure, The Lost Gospel reveals secrets that have been hiding in plain sight for millennia.
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.
