Comments on: Originality vs. Tradition: A Brief Note on Christmas http://benabuya.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/ looking for alternative explanations Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:43:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jen http://benabuya.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-206 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:11:33 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-206 heh, I was just thinking about this myself the other day. It seems that the essence of Christianity is the ability to believe impossible concepts (I would say doublethink if it weren’t for the unfortunate connotations). The whole idea of the Trinity; being mortal and divine at the same time; etc

]]> By: ha-historion http://benabuya.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-195 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:08:17 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-195 Very interesting. Paulian Christianity did incorporate many pagan ideas and customs in his new brand of the faith.

]]> By: Conrad http://benabuya.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-170 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:32:24 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/originality-vs-tradition-a-brief-note-on-christmas/#comment-170 “Ironic, perhaps, that the worship of the sun should have become the worship of the Son.”

Ironic, or appropriate? Or ironically appropriate?

Myself, I like the idea of the Gospels as a sort of realist satire on mythography and theological abstraction. Frye talks a bit about Christ as an essentially ironic figure, in a very particular meaning of ironic, as an inversion of type.

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