S T Jr. Kimbrough

Creating Christmas Atmosphere (eBook, ePUB)

Poems of Christmas Love

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although the biblical Christmas story's content remains the same, how it is understood from year to year depends on many things: attitudes, cultural context, geography, religion, language, music, etc. All of these influence the atmosphere created and experienced in and around the Christmas story and Christmastime. Perhaps one's celebration is satisfied by a secular atmosphere created simply by singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Nostalgia also plays a role in how Christmas is celebrated and remembered. Family and cultural traditions color the atmosphere one experiences, and decorations and symbols of religious traditions play a significant role in how Christmas is viewed. How the Christmas story is told has much to do with the atmosphere that it creates, above all an atmosphere of love. It can be told through stained glass, diverse cultural images, lyrics, melodies, and rhythms. It can be told in poetry, prose, songs, and paintings. The poems here address these things, but they also encompass less familiar images of a homeless and refugee child, the fall of the powerful, and the rich having nothing. These are themes that are part of the Christmas story, but above all, it is a story of love for all humankind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798385248322
• Artikelnr.: 74344801

Autorenporträt

S T Kimbrough Jr. holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a research fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School. He has taught on leading theological faculties in Europe and the USA. He has published numerous books with Wipf and Stock including The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley; Radical Grace; Partakers in the Life Divine, which addresses Charles Wesley's thought and that of Eastern Orthodoxy; and many books of poetry.