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A Christmas Carol

In Our Time

Dickens' Christmas Carol - And Scrooge Is Out

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Dickens realised that for ordinary people, sometimes institutionalised forms of religion were quite off-putting. John Ruskin said wrongly that a Christmas carol was all about mistletoe and pudding - he had read it. It is absolutely about the resurrection of the dead. Scrooge redeemed, tiny Tim restored to life,. in that sense, a profoundly Christian text.

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