The cast of characters is strange and exotic: shepherds and magicians, an emperor and a despot, angels, and a baby who is Almighty God. The strangeness calls for an explanation, and this book provides it by examining the characters and the story in light of the biblical and historical context. Bestselling author Scott Hahn makes Christmas familiar all over again by showing it to be the story of a father, a mother, and a child—their relationships, their interactions, their principals, their individual lives, and their common life. To see the life of this “earthly trinity”” is to gaze into heaven.