Christopher Goins’s Reviews > The True Meaning of Christmas: The Birth of Jesus and the Origins of the Season > Status Update

Raymond Brown’s scholarship gets undermined here. Fantastic. Down with liberal Catholic scholarship!

Catholicism is the richest (in terms of meaning) religion on Earth. Connecting the Emmanuel prophecy of Isaiah with Mary as the Queen Mother reminds me of why I became Catholic in the first place.

The Bible is a complex book. Here I don’t mean confusing. I mean there is a LOT going on within any given individual passage, such as the parallels in the Gospel of Luke between Mary and Zechariah.

A Catholic scholar’s take on Christmas