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A review by xandra_lyn
Journey to the Manger: Exploring the Birth of Jesus by Paula Gooder
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This was such an amazing book!! It was thought provoking and illuminating. I've grown up into the American evangelical inerrancy tradition, and I've grown up with the nativity story all my life. This has fresh, biblically and historically accurate information that combined faith with the reality of scholarship. She doesn't delve too deeply into the discrepancies of the narratives but focuses on the beauty of the overall theme: that God loves us so much that he'd do something as surprising as come down as a baby.
It was refreshing and wonderful and I highly recommend it!!
It was refreshing and wonderful and I highly recommend it!!
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death
Child death: death of the innocents
Adult/minor relationship: she makes a big deal about Mary being only 12. Most bump it to 14 (which is still not great, when you think of it), and it did leave me feeling rather ill at ease (to be fair, the author is not saying child marriage is a good thing, only it is the reality according to many historians)