TEXT TRANSLATION 6.1.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 345.

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LISTENING 6.1. Archbishop says Christmas story a legend

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TONY EASTLEY: Just four days out from one of the ________days for the Christian____________ and the head of the _________________ Church has said that not all Christians need believe in the _____________.

The _______________ of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has also described the story of the _________________as nothing but a legend.

Some Australian Bishops have welcomed the comments as a chance to discuss the details of their faith, but others say the timing could have been a bit better.

Michael Vincent reports.

MICHAEL VINCENT: It's the traditional story surrounding Christmas Day. _________ was born in a manger, he was visited by three ____________, and they'd followed a _______________to find him in Bethlehem.

Not quite true according to the head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: Well, Matthew's ____________ doesn't tell us that there were three of them. Doesn't tell us they were kings, doesn't tell us where they came from. It says they're astrologers, wise men, _____________from somewhere outside the Roman Empire. That's all we're really told, so yeah, The Three Kings with the one from Africa, that's legend. It works quite well as legend.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: I don't want to set it as ________________ people have to get over before they can, you know, be signed up. But I think a few people would say that as time goes on, they get a sense, a deeper sense of what the virgin birth is about. I'd say that of myself, that I - 30 years ago I_______________________I wasn't too fussed about it. Now I see it much more dove turning with the rest of what I believe about the story, and yes.

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PAT POWER: I've got the highest respect for Archbishop Rowan Williams, I think he's very well articulated the _____________. I don't know that the context in which he's made these statements but I'd just say that they are the sort of statements I think I would make and I think sometimes they can be unhelpful if they're just presented in such a way that can appear to be somewhat_________________, I think, to people's traditional beliefs.

MICHAEL VINCENT: But the Anglican _______________ in Australia, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, has defended Dr Williams.

He says knowing that Christ ____________________in December shouldn't be threatening to Christians.

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STEPHANIE KENNEDY: And what about that other person who's become an icon on December the 25th?

The Archbishop of Canterbury was also asked on the BBC about believing in ______________. This was Dr Williams' very brief response.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: This belief in Santa doesn't ______________, it doesn't generate art, it doesn't generate imagination. Believing in God is a bit bigger than that.

TONY EASTLEY: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, ending Michael Vincent's report.

And we tried to contact the head of the Catholic Church in Australia, the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, on these weighty_____________________ issues, however _____________________was busy with official duties.