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    Encountering Christmas
    Encountering Christmas
    Encountering Christmas
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    Encountering Christmas

    By Carolyn Sweers

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    This book is an attempt to defamiliarize the Christmas stories found in the Bible. Familiarity can result in a diminishment of wonder at the astounding news that God was manifest as a baby in a manger and that the event was announced by angels. The Christmas story is not about something that happened once. It has profound implications for unders

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLettra Press LLC
    Release dateMar 11, 2019
    ISBN9781949746969
    Encountering Christmas
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    Carolyn Sweers

    Carolyn Sweers grew up on an Iowa farm in the 1950's. It was there that she had her first experiences of the profound Silence she tries to describe in this book. These experiences, more than any others, shaped her life and led her to a career as a philosophy student and teacher. This book and others that she has had published recently, have a shared objective: to evoke insight in the reader. She knows from experience the importance of finding what Kierkegaard called "the truth for me." And, she shares the Socratic conviction that people have within them this truth. It simply needs to be revoked. That is what this book attempts to do.

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