Volume 3.1 Fall 2016

To Our Readers,

Christmas, one of the great feasts of the Christian calendar, has been shaped and inculturated in innumerable ways through the centuries. What does it celebrate, and how does it do that? This issue of The Yale ISM Review takes up these questions and provides insights and some surprising answers—in music, art, literature, and liturgy.

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~ Rita Ferrone, Editor

November 1st, 2016

Welcome to The Yale ISM Review

• In This Issue
  Rita Ferrone, editor
• On the Cover

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