People of the Gospel

The first disciples of Our Lord are not characters from fiction, but real figures in history. The New Testament actually tells us far more about who they are than many people realise, and that is what People of the Gospel explores.

Christ didn’t pick his apostles at random — many of them were members of his own extended family. In this book, Fr Jerome Bertram of the Oxford Oratory does the detective work for us, piecing together the clues that have been left to us in the Gospels and in the early Christian tradition. Not only do we see where all the first disciples came from, but we get to know them better and, in the process, see God’s grace at work. Defending the Catholic tradition against the default modern position of academic scepticism, Fr Jerome brings the pages of the Gospel alive for us, giving us the courage to read the New Testament for ourselves and to believe it.

Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 148mm x 210mm, 158 pages
ISBN: 1871217563
Publisher: Family Publications