This Sunday in Sessions Class

 

We will begin the first of our three week pre-Christmas discussion

of the new book by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan:

 

The First Christmas

What the Gospels Really Teach about Jesus’s Birth

 

Two of today’s top Jesus scholars join forces to show how history

has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the

gospels of Luke and Matthew.

 

The authors peel away the sentimentalism that has built over

2,000 years around this most well known of all stories to examine

“What do these stories mean?” in the context of both the first

century and the twenty-first century.

 

The authors attempt to show that the Christmas story, read in its

original context, is far richer and more challenging than people imagine.

 

On Sunday, we will discuss the Preface and Part 1:

• The Stories of the First Christmas
• Parables as Overtures
• The Context of the Christmas Stories

 

Join us.