The Infancy Narratives Undset Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Crossing the Threshold of Hope

“The Christian imagination…is concerned precisely with the tension

Existentialist Philosophies

François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French

and loving God

The Infancy Narratives Undset Crossing the Threshold of HopeBy Jean Danilou, S. J. Early Christians had no issue in grasping the biographical details of Jesus life. Their struggle, avers Jean Danilou, was to go beyond the historical and see the divine content of those details. Modern Christians tend toward the opposite mistake. Modernist criticism dismisses the infancy narratives as the stuff of pure legend. Yet the historicity of these stories is of fundamental importance; as Danilou emphasizes, If Christ was