The manger of Bethlehem has always been the cradle of much of Western art and thought, yet modern scholarship has too often raised the question of that manger's reality without probing for the deeper truths which inspired the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke. The Birth of the Messiah is a thought-provoking presentation of the best modern criticism combined with insight into the spiritual …
“The Roman Catholic Church spent the first third of this century in opposition to a scientific critique of the Bible. It spent the next third accepting biblical criticism. Only now, in the last third of the century, is it really facing the problem of how to live with the impact of biblical criticism. What the Church thinks about the Bible will affect its total religious outlook. If through bi…