E.J. Dionne: Christmas turned the world upside down

Washington • When you ponder what Christmas celebrates, the holiday’s claim is staggering.N.T. Wright, the widely read biblical scholar and former Anglican bishop, captures its import by noting that the Gospels do not cast Jesus as “parachuting down from a great height to dispense solutions to all problems nor zapping everything into shape like some kind of Superman.”Rather, Wright observes in his book “Simply Good News,” Christ is shown as “living in the