Did Charles Dickens play any role in renewing the spirit of Christmas in modern times?

I just finished watching the movie: [The man who invented Christmas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Invented_Christmas_(film)) . This got me asking the question: Did Charles Dickens played any real role in renewing (reviving) the spirit of Christmas (in the Christian sense) in modern times. If so, what influences did he produce in doing so? Do any proofs of how he influenced a possible renewal in Christmas exist? Charles Dickens wrote ***A Christmas Carol*** in 1843. As a young man, Charles Dickens expressed a distaste for certain aspects of organised religion. He considered himself a Unitarian. What was Christmas really like where Charles Dickens [lived](https://www.walks.com/blog/charles-dickens-house-in-london/) in London, England in the 1840s? (This was some two hundred years after Oliver Cromwell tried to help ban Christmas!)