{"id":5259,"date":"2018-12-20T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woocommerce-632430-2060185.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:29:46","slug":"5259-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicallatin.org\/exordium\/5259-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss Memoria Press&#8217; Christmas article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memoriapress.com\/articles\/a-christmas-fairy-tale\/\">A Christmas Fairy Tale<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There are people who believe that the story at the center of Christmas\u2014that a virgin conceived and bore the Son of God\u2014is a myth or a fairy tale. And they are right. It is.<\/p><p>In his book The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton points out that the ancients (at least those who were not privy to divine revelation) employed two approaches to reality: The first was reason, and the second was imagination. The tradition of reason produced philosophy and history, and the tradition of imagination produced myths and fairy tales.<\/p><p>Both were attempts to approach truth &#8230; It was only Christianity that ultimately brought them together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memoriapress.com\/articles\/a-christmas-fairy-tale\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss Memoria Press&#8217; Christmas article &#8220;A Christmas Fairy Tale&#8220;: There are people who believe that the story at the center of Christmas\u2014that a virgin conceived and bore the Son of God\u2014is a myth or a fairy tale. And they are right. It is. 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