The Infancy Narratives Undset on which God rests

on which God rests

Bishop Latour claims the land and the souls who live there “for the glory of God”: sowing the seeds of the Catholic faith in the shallow

Paperback: 560pp

“The Christian imagination…is concerned precisely with the tension

The Infancy Narratives Undset on which God restsBy Jean Danilou, S. J. Early Christians had no issue in grasping the biographical details of Jesus life. Their struggle, avers Jean Danilou, was to go beyond the historical and see the divine content of those details. Modern Christians tend toward the opposite mistake. Modernist criticism dismisses the infancy narratives as the stuff of pure legend. Yet the historicity of these stories is of fundamental importance; as Danilou emphasizes, If Christ was