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Richard Horsley

The Liberation of Christmas

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Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical basis and to see in them illustrations of the particular theologies of Matthew and Luke. Nonbiblical scholarship sees in these narratives only an adaptation of traditional folklore themes relating to the birth of the hero. This leaves the ordinary Christian in a vacuum that the mass media and other commercial interests are only too anxious to fill.'Liberating Christmas' shows that, regardless of whether the nativity narratives are rooted in actual historical situations, they do portray a particular network of social-political relationships. Thus Ca… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59752-575-6
  • EAN: 9781597525756
  • Produktnummer: 2800138
  • Verlag: Wipf and Stock
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 218 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 281 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 281

Über den Autor


Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of numerous works, including 'Jesus and Empire,' 'Jesus and the Spiral of Violence,' 'Galilee,' and 'Hearing the Whole Story.' He is also editor of 'Christian Origins,' which is volume 1 of A People's History of Christianity.

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