Christmas in a Different Genre: An Abstract Christmas

Everyone loves a great Christmas story! Well, the original Christmas story – the story of the birth of Jesus – is told a few different ways in the Bible. One version is very abstract – written like a passage of philosophy or theology, another is kind of hardcore – described through the metaphor of an epic battle, and then another is what we would call “traditional” – the humble story of a King born in a quiet corner of the world and placed in a manger.