Happy New Year, Scrooge!

Faith MattersHuman Experience
Written By Edward Wolfe

Scrooge played by Alistair Sim 1951

The iconic character from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol reflects the author’s Christian faith. That’s right, the most deplorable, selfish, and unsocial character in the story shows how Dickens actually felt about what he called “real Christianity.”

Think about it: the miserly, wounded, and selfish character undergoes a profound spiritual transformation as a result of supernatural intervention. And we don’t seem to get tired of the story. Through countless plays and movies based entirely on the book and even in the popular vernacular (“Scrooge” is a term of disapprobation even today), audiences keep coming back for more.

As Mark Martin in an article for CBN News stated, Dickens’s portrayal of “real Christianity” shows he believed it is being like Jesus. His faith comes through his many wonderful works, including the iconic Christmas Carol.

So, Happy New Year, Mr. Scrooge. And may all of my readers enjoy a prosperous, joyful, and abundant life in the coming year!

https://cbn.com/news/us/god-and-scrooge-how-charles-dickens-pursued-real-christianity

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Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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