1. Noel, noel, a charming gift idea with suggestions of inverted seasonal myth—until director Joseph Sargent swamps it all in Antimythical literalism and predictable lunchtime theater.

2. Noel, noel, a charming gift idea with suggestions of inverted seasonal myth—until director Joseph Sargent swamps it all in Antimythical literalism and predictable lunchtime theater.

3. According to Smith, “Biblicists very often engage in what we might call ‘uneven and capricious selective literalism.’ Sometimes the Bible says what it says and must be obeyed

4. Noel, noel, a charming gift idea with suggestions of inverted seasonal myth—until director Joseph Sargent swamps it all in Antimythical literalism and predictable lunchtime theater.

5. Heresies: Arianism The doctrine known as Arianism actually began early in the 3rd century, and was the product of speculation into the nature of Christ. It became one of the hottest issues in the early Church — even more than Gnosticism, as Arianism many adherents, and was closer in nature to the “orthodox” Literalism of the time.