JOHN STOTT
A portrait by his friends
Edited by Chris Wright. Inter-Varsity Press. 217 pages. £11.99
ISBN 978 1 844 745 166
This is an extraordinarily hard book to review. Not because it is difficult, long, dull or unorthodox (it is none of those), but because it consists of 35 delightful reminiscences of those who knew John Stott best, both in public and in private.
Alongside the biographies of Dudley-Smith and Steer, this stands as an affectionate portrait of one of the most significant Christians of the 20th century, ‘warts and all’, as Stott himself requested (p.14). Reviewing it is a bit like reviewing the speeches at a birthday party: and the book was published (before his death) to coincide with Stott’s 90th birthday.
