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Cover Story by George Sim Johnston
Posted by Ed and Lois
The newsweeklies discovered long ago that Jesus Christ sells magazines. So it is not surprising to find him on the covers of Time and Newsweek a few weeks before Christmas. The Time cover promises the “secrets” of the Nativity, thereby beckoning “Da Vinci Code”-hunters; but fortunately the article itself, an earnest attempt to sort out what happened in Palestine 2,000 years ago, is not quite so silly as Dan Brown’s best-selling novel.
What are we to make of the Gospel accounts of the Nativity? For a Christian, of course, they are true, an article of faith. But faith does not preclude looking at them as historical and literary documents. If God is the author of Scripture, he nonetheless makes full use of the habits of mind and expression of the men writing these accounts. Luke, for example, was a highly educated Gentile, and he used some Roman literary models to tell his story. But that does not mean he made it up.
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