l 12月24日
Christmas eve → the day or evening
before Christmas Day
l 12月25日
Christmas day → 25 December, celebrated by Christians as the day that Jesus Christ
was born
l 12月26日
Boxing day → the first day after Christmas Day, which is a public holiday in the
UK and Canada
Charles Dicken
Charles
John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's
best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest
novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity
during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had
recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting
popularity.
l Gospels
A gospel is an account describing the
life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The most widely
known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
which are included in the New Testament, but the term is also used to refer to
apocryphal gospels, non-canonical gospels, Jewish-Christian gospels, and
gnostic gospels.
Christianity places a high value on the four canonical
gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its
belief system. Christianity traditionally teaches that the four canonical
gospels are an accurate and authoritative representation of the life of Jesus,
but many scholars and historians, as well as liberal churches, note that much
of that which is contained in the gospels is not historically reliable. This
position however, requires a liberal view of Biblical inerrancy. For example,
professor of religion Linda Woodhead notes some scholarship reinforces the
claim that "the gospels' birth and resurrection narratives can be
explained as attempts to fit Jesus’s life into the logic of Jewish
expectation". However, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright holds firmly to the historical authenticity of the
death and resurrection of Jesus, stating that of the whole Bible, this is the
story with the most overwhelming historical evidence.
l Luke
l Matthew
l John
l Mark
Ø The
original sin 原罪
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