The Twelve: The Lives of the Apostles After Calgary
Ruffin, C Bernard. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, Huntington Indiana, 1997.
Extremely interesting read, and well laid-out for the layman, as it were - takes most of its cues from the Book of Acts (of course) and other mentions throughout the Gospels. However, it also admits to certain lack of historical evidence regarding several of the Apostles histories before they met Christ, as well as trying to illuminate the facts from supposition about what they did after Christ.
Suffice it to say, what is important in the Bible is of course, what we have - and a biography of the men who helped plant the seeds of Christianity is not as important as the message itself, however, putting them in a more human context is always great fun, and I do appreciate that the book does admit when evidence is lacking and what can merely be extrapolated from what we do have to work with.
All in all, though - it's a nice read.
VG
Extremely interesting read, and well laid-out for the layman, as it were - takes most of its cues from the Book of Acts (of course) and other mentions throughout the Gospels. However, it also admits to certain lack of historical evidence regarding several of the Apostles histories before they met Christ, as well as trying to illuminate the facts from supposition about what they did after Christ.
Suffice it to say, what is important in the Bible is of course, what we have - and a biography of the men who helped plant the seeds of Christianity is not as important as the message itself, however, putting them in a more human context is always great fun, and I do appreciate that the book does admit when evidence is lacking and what can merely be extrapolated from what we do have to work with.
All in all, though - it's a nice read.
VG
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