{"id":20431,"date":"2014-12-24T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=20431"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:41:15","slug":"mary-did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/mary-did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary, Did You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As I\u2019ve said before, the great challenge for an artist\u2013whether an author, musician, painter, or whatever\u2013in depicting Jesus Christ is how to portray Him as both God and Man.\u00a0 In Christmas art, some work portrays Him in His humanness as a cute little baby.\u00a0 Other work, such as the classic icons, show the Child as transcendent God.\u00a0 Both are fine, conveying profound truths about who Christ is.\u00a0 But the very best art about Christ somehow evokes BOTH His divinity and His humanity.<\/p>\n

I have a candidate, a contemporary Christmas song, that pulls this off:\u00a0 Mary, Did You Know?<\/a> by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene.\u00a0 Here are the lyrics<\/a>.\u00a0 After the jump, a video of my favorite performance of the song, the haunting version by Kathy Mattea.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the way, for what Mary DID know, see Rev. Charles Henrickson, <a href=\"http:\/\/steadfastlutherans.org\/?p=39499\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve said before, the great challenge for an artist\u2013whether an author, musician, painter, or whatever\u2013in depicting Jesus Christ is how to portray Him as both God and Man.\u00a0 In Christmas art, some work portrays Him in His humanness as a cute little baby.\u00a0 Other work, such as the classic icons, show the Child as 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