Book Launch
The Messianic Star: New Light on the Star of Bethlehem
The Sophia Centre University of Wales Trinity Saint David and The Sophia Centre Press
Please join us at
6 pm GMT on Tuesday 13th December
for the launch of
The Messianic Star: New Light on the Star of Bethlehem by Martin Wells.
In this new work on the Star of Bethlehem, based on his PhD at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Martin Wells questions the idea that the Star was an actual event. Instead, by going back to the original texts he shows that we should understand the Star as an imaginative story intended to legitimise Christ’s role as the new Messiah, a story which resonates powerfully down to the present day. Wells shows how it is the ways in which we imagine the sky which shape the way we envision our relationship with the divine.
The Messianic Star is published by the Sophia Centre Press in partnership with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
We are pleased to partner with the Celestial Arts Education Library (CAELI) to host the launch
To see more about the book see here.
Registration
Register for the launch here
As a pre-order bonus, anyone who orders the book before December 13 and sends proof of purchase to orders@sophiacentrepress.com will receive an instant PDF of the book for immediate access. PDFs will be delivered once proof of purchase is confirmed by a live human being. Please have patience with us!
thanks,
Nick
About the Author
Dr. Martin Wells's began at an early age reading history. Fascinated by mysteries of the ancient world he went on to study Biblical history at Saint David’s University College, where he achieved his BA (Hons) focusing on Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church in Religious Studies in 1994. Martin went on to examine the Star of Bethlehem and the Infancy Narratives. He completed his Doctoral Thesis in 2009.
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