Volume 3.1 Fall 2016
In This Issue
Rita Ferrone, editor
Savoring the Mystery
Music and Divine Encounter in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Markus Rathey
The Magi and the Manger: Imaging Christmas in Ancient Art and Ritual
Felicity Harley-McGowan and Andrew McGowan
Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
Arthur P. Urbano
Born in Us Today: The Gospel of Incarnation
Wendy Farley
Keeping the Feast
A Meeting of Domestic and Liturgical Rites: Joy and Light in Orthodox Christmas
Nicholas E. Denysenko
Christmas in Fear, or Looking over One’s Shoulder at the Crèche
Susan K. Roll
The Grinch that Didn’t Steal Christmas: A Reformation Story
Bruce Gordon
The Christmas Hearth
Oana Sanziana Marian
One Final Note
Can We Still See Calvary from Bethlehem?
R. Guy Erwin
The Yale ISM
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