Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)
What could be more familiar than the Christmas story—and yet what could be more extraordinary?

The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides it by examining the characters and the story in light of the biblical and historical context.

Bestselling author Scott Hahn who has written extensively on Scripture and the early Church, brings evidence to light, dispelling some of the mystery of the story. Yet Christmas is made familiar all over again by showing it to be a family story. Christmas, as it appears in the New Testament, is the story of a father, a mother, and a child—their relationships, their interactions, their principles, their individual lives, and their common life. To see the life of this "earthly trinity" is to gaze into heaven.
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Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)
What could be more familiar than the Christmas story—and yet what could be more extraordinary?

The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides it by examining the characters and the story in light of the biblical and historical context.

Bestselling author Scott Hahn who has written extensively on Scripture and the early Church, brings evidence to light, dispelling some of the mystery of the story. Yet Christmas is made familiar all over again by showing it to be a family story. Christmas, as it appears in the New Testament, is the story of a father, a mother, and a child—their relationships, their interactions, their principles, their individual lives, and their common life. To see the life of this "earthly trinity" is to gaze into heaven.
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Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

by Scott Hahn
Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

by Scott Hahn

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What could be more familiar than the Christmas story—and yet what could be more extraordinary?

The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides it by examining the characters and the story in light of the biblical and historical context.

Bestselling author Scott Hahn who has written extensively on Scripture and the early Church, brings evidence to light, dispelling some of the mystery of the story. Yet Christmas is made familiar all over again by showing it to be a family story. Christmas, as it appears in the New Testament, is the story of a father, a mother, and a child—their relationships, their interactions, their principles, their individual lives, and their common life. To see the life of this "earthly trinity" is to gaze into heaven.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804141123
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/21/2014
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DR. SCOTT W. HAHN holds the Fr. Michael Scanlan Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 1990, and is the Founder and President of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. From 2005 to 2011, he was the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology and Liturgical Proclamation at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hahn is also the bestselling author of numerous books including The Lamb's Supper, Reasons to Believe, and Signs of Life. He lives in Steubenville, Ohio.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Light Goes On in Bethlehem 1

Chapter 2 What Happens in Bethlehem… 13

Chapter 3 A New Genesis 23

Chapter 4 The Counterfeit Kingdom 39

Chapter 5 Mary: Cause of Our Joy 49

Chapter 6 Silent Knight, Holy Knight 67

Chapter 7 Angels: Echoing Their Joyous Strains 83

Chapter 8 O Little Town of Bethlehem 97

Chapter 9 Do You Believe in Magi? 107

Chapter 10 Shepherds, Why This Jubilee? 119

Chapter 11 The Glory of Your People: The Presentation 127

Chapter 12 Flight into Joy 135

Chapter 13 Blessed Trinities: Heaven and the Holy Family 145

Chapter 14 Joy to the World! 155

Notes 169

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