Abstract
Christmas as the Festival of the Incarnation poses special problems and offers particular insights for the doctrine of Christology. Jesus Christ, born at Christmas, has been given the name, Love, for in his Person and his life, a compassion for the suffering and lost animates his ministry and death. Such a name implies a joining of birth and death, Person and Passion. This is the view of the ancient Church. But modern theologians have accented the Person of Jesus Christ, distinct from his saving work, making Christ at once more universal and more tied to Christmas as a festival of joy. Central to both views, however, is the key teaching of the Council of Chalcedon, that the Person of Christ is both fully human and fully divine. This is the Mystery of Christ who enters the creaturely realm as child and Redeemer.
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