Anthony Esolen counters the antichrist by giving us a profound and moving meditation on the true Christ. If you were swamped with all the frippery and foolishness of a commercialized Christmas, take up Professor Esolen’s book and plunge into the depths of the mystery of the incarnation of Christ the Lord.
It was apt that on the seventh day of the Christmas octave that I should pick up Anthony Esolen’s new book, In the Beginning Was the Word – An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of…