Nativity Scene Analysis

Imagine if there were no Christmas trees on Christmas. How would it feel? Till this day in almost every American household there is at least one Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is one of the symbols and early traditions from the pagans that early Roman Catholics adopted. Although, the Roman Catholic Church perceived sinful and unacceptable some of the pagan traditions such as the value and behavior that the Anglo-Saxons had towards their cattle and how they sacrificed them to their idols. The church had to synchronize and blend some pagan traditions so they could influence their new strategy to evangelize and attract the heathens.

You should measure your wealth not in money, but in who and what you are lucky enough to posses. In “A Christmas Carol”, Ebenezer Scrooge is an elderly, lonely and pessimistic man who cares about nothing more than his money. However, while experiencing 3 separate encounters with 3 Christmas ghosts, he evolves into something different. Some might say he is a Santa Claus-like character by the end; jolly, caring and most of all, grateful. Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, adapted by Israel Horovitz Scrooge teaches readers that you should not determine your prosperity in money, but by what you are blessed enough to fill your life with.

School counselor Kay Williams put up a Nativity Scene on her class bulletin board Nov. 29, 2011.

Christmas can have many meaning to different people depending on how they interpret it. However, if looking at the Christian aspect of it. The

The first artwork I looked at was Christ. This piece immediately caught my eye because of the way the artist depicted Christ. He was lifeless, blood dripping from his head, hands, and feet, with his arms outstretched to his sides. With a slimmed down face, and prominent ribs, he looked malnourished and emaciated. Before the 13th Century Christ was shown as a king and Son of God, usually with him standing in front of a cross with his arms stretched to the side, showing truth and faith. But since then artists have been presenting him as he looked on the cross when he was crucified. This is to show the suffering and pain that he went through for his faith. Christians will remember the anguish that Christ went through when they see him on the cross and this helps to remind them to stay close in their faith.

It is assumed by many scholars and believed by Protestants that the birthdate of Jesus was on December 25th somewhere between 6 and 4 BC. Protestants believe in the he was born in an obscure village called Bethlehem in the Southern region of Judea. The story of Jesus’ birth is known as the nativity scene where his Mother mary and her husband Joseph birth him in a manger around farm animals, shepherds, wise men, and kings. This event became the base for the holiday Christmas which is celebrated in households all around the world.

To begin, the history of Christmas is peculiar and filled with factors that make it well-known all throughout the world. It’s history goes all the way back to 336, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Jesus was born in Bethlehem from a virgin whose name was Mary. In a stable, where shepherds visited, along with everyone who heard, a miracle happened and the holiday came to be. As time continued, Christians have been swept away from the celebration’s natural meaning, background, and origins.

IChristmas choirs! Jingling bells! Manger scenes! Excited children! Unfortunately, there are many children who are facing hunger here and throughout the world or enduring war, or who are in hospital and not able to be home for Christmas. Many of our children in the Shrine Hospitals are not able to get home for Christmas, so my prayer is that they are safe and secure and able to share the joy of the Christ Child’s birth.

The manger is such a meaningful symbol of Christianity that is causes controversy. Christians love it, non-Christians are offended

Nissenbaum wrote this book to discuss how American culture has been impactful on Christmas rituals depending upon the social landscape of the time (page xii). The Battle for Christmas is organized into seven chapters. The first three chapters discussed the origins of Christmas and how the holiday was commercialized (page xi). The next two chapters argued that Americans used objects such as the Christmas tree to preach against a materialistic Christmas in the mid-nineteenth century (page xi). Chapters six and seven mention Christmas charity and how the holiday operated in the antebellum South (page xi).

‘What else can I be,’ returned the uncle, ‘when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ‘em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will,’ said Scrooge, indignantly, ‘every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas,’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!” (Dickens, 5-6). This quote shows that Scrooge believes Christmas is a nuisance in that, despite being

Christmas was to be a festival to reflect on society in a way to show that it was better than the past. The medieval time periods has perfect models that seemed to bring sheer celebration to christmas. “Merrie England” and the “Olde Christmas” provided the foundation to help build a new Christmas, one that fit the time period, and

In addition, for Hanukkah they light the menorah and play the dreidel. Another difference is the importance of Christmas and Hanukkah. Christmas celebrates the nativity of Christ and it is as diverse as the many countries that observe it, and was a popular subject in the Catholic and Orthodox religious art of the middle ages and Renaissance( The Gift of Holiday Traditions).Hanukkah is celebrated after a miracle occurred when the Jewish people reclaimed their temple from their Seleucid (Macedonian) conquerors Judah ’s men tried to reconsecrate the Jewish temple by lighting its menorah which is a sacramental lamp. The story of the birth of Jesus can be found in the bible.

Their second tradition is what they call a Nascimento. The Nascimento is the birth of jesus.The Nascimento is a little Christmas decoration that they put under the Christmas tree and it is also

Before Jesus transformed others He first changed Himself. Jesus’ birth was one great example of God’s overpowering love for us. Jesus was willing to humble Himself to the level of a human child, powerless and vulnerable. The Christmas story is the affirmation that Jesus was fully God and fully man. An individual capable of engaging with people and ultimately dying for them while at the same time remaining fully righteous.