The First Christmas

What The Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth

BY MARCUS BORG & JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN

Brief Description:
In The First Christmas Marcus Borg and John Crossan show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all stories. The authors help us to see this narrative afresh by answering the question, "What do these stories mean?" They successfully show that the Christmas story, read in its original context, is far richer and more challenging than people imagine.

HarperCollins 2007 272 PP. Cloth

$21.95 (in stock)