Giving the World a Christian Shape
As often happens with the most portentous and far-reaching events, the learned and the clever will be the last to know. Something undeniably huge and seismic took place in a tiny town in the Eastern Mediterranean more than two millennia ago, and scarcely anyone took notice. “A star shone forth in the heavens,” wrote St. Ignatius, bishop and martyr, recalling the event near the end of the first century, “and its light was unutterable. Its strangeness caused amazement, and all the rest of the
en-US