The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation 316: The “Myth” of the Magi—Father Dwight Longenecker
Dec 27, 2022
44:56
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- How reliable Matthew is as an historian
- Why describing the Magi a function of myth doesn’t not take away from their historicity
- How the colorful additions (Caspar? Melchior? Balthasar? Camels?) to the biblical story arose
- The multiple meanings of “the East” for the Jewish people
- How the arrival and worship of the Magi set the Incarnation onto an international setting
- How to see the accretions of the Magi part of the story with Santa Claus and the original story of St. Nicholas
- Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men by Dwight Longenecker
- More Christianity by Dwight Longenecker
- Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen
- The Day Christ Was Born by Jim Bishop
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