Thursday, June 11, 2009

Theology for dummies

In spite of not actually having found a church I feel entirely comfortable in with Eve, I press ahead with introducing her to religion. She has a little book of bible stories and today, just after her afternoon nap, we were reading it together. She likes the stories with animals in (creation, Noah, Daniel in the lion's den). She also likes the pictures with children or babies in. Ever since she was given the scary swimming baby by my parents, more of that anon, she has been quite into babies.

So, today, we turned to the Christmas story. She happily pointed at all the people in the accompanying picture. I named them as she did. Baby Jesus, the sheep, the shepherds, Jesus' mummy, Jesus' daddy - ah, well, sort of.

Now Yummy Mummy has an undergraduate degree in Theology from a very respectable university and knows all about the trinity. The last person who asked me about it was considerably older than Eve, and I made a pretty good stab at explaining it. However, trying to explain why Joseph isn't, strictly speaking, Jesus' daddy to Eve as she gets older is going to pose more of a challenge.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

But he is biologically speaking, no?

Mummy said...

Most certainly not biologically speaking. But in every other way that counts, yes.

Anonymous said...

ah,
I had forgotten about the whole virgin thing, which now I think of it, is quite important....

Mummy said...

Just a tiny bit important, yes.

Anonymous said...

You can see I take my theology very seriously....