GOD'S LITTLE PEOPLE: THE APOSTLES OF JESUS
By Brian H. Edwards
Day One. 128 pages. £5.00
ISBN 1 903087 94 5
Little People seems a strange description for an apostle like Peter — whose chapter in this encouraging little book is considerably longer than that of James the less — about who Edwards admits ‘...we know little’. But his aim is to show ‘... the whole purpose of our lives, as theirs, is not that we should leave a name for ourselves but that we should exalt the name of Christ’.
This book certainly does that, and in a clear and simple style that will be easily accessible even to quite little people. Thankfully Edwards makes only sparing use of extra-biblical material and traditions in this collection of mini-biographies, but he often has to resort to speculation about how particular apostles might have reacted to some biblical event.
