ourselves? Austin Farrer reminds us of how much Jesus must have owed to someone totally unknown to us, the local village rabbi at Nazareth, but of course there would have been many others. Rowan Williams puts it succinctly: Jesus ‘learned how to be human’ and that meant learning within a specific context, including of course the parental home, and so from Mary and Joseph.4 All this may seem far from our theme of what Christians can learn from the arts, but it is not. Just as the temptation to see Jesus as a totally self-contained individual must be resisted if the incarnation is to be treated
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Jesus' incarnation and art - his humanity is important to consider!
