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| The Apostles | 
 enlarge | Author: Pope Benedict Xvi
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4324
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1592764053
Dewey Decimal Number: 226.092
EAN: 9781592764051
ASIN: 1592764053
Publication Date: July 20, 2007
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 The Apostles December 1, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Recognizing that this is a translation, the work is EXCELLENTLY prepared and well written. The facts are presented in such a way as to be both interesting and informative. The Holy Father, once again, has written a wonderful work.
 Whatever His Holiness Wrote, This Isn't It October 23, 2007
7 out of 37 found this review helpful
Whatever our beloved Holy Father wrote, this isn't it. I'm only in the second chapter, and am frequently confused by the erratic usages. "Communion," for instance, is sometimes in lower case, sometimes in upper case, and sometimes in quotation marks, never for any discernible reasons. Capitalization seems to be based on whim, not on any system of meaning, and the translation is often simply clunky. Someone needs to pray ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys, and start over.
The Apostles is a Must Read! September 16, 2007
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Pope Benedict XVI has created a wonderful work in "The Apostles." A word for those who have read his pre-Pope works, or even Pope JPII's works, this book is amazingly simple and readable in style, and one can easily take a chapter a day and get through it. He provides meditations, scriptural history and traditions for each of the Apostles and a few others mentioned in the New Testament in a way I have never seen. This book will open your eyes to the profound lives of each of the Apostles and how they experienced Jesus in their own unique ways, their strengths and their weaknesses. I honestly could not put this book down. Incredible, packed with depth yet written for the common lay person!
Definately gives you a better understanding. September 13, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This would be especially good for confirmation classes as it is brief and would be a good way to start the class.
A Great Follow-up to Jesus of Nazareth August 7, 2007
93 out of 95 found this review helpful
In some way this book was being written at the same time as Jesus of Nazareth as Pope Benedict gave his weekly teaching on the Apostles that Jesus chose and that the Church chose after Jesus' resurrection. The pope had insisted that in Jesus of Nazareth he was writing as Joseph Ratizinger, not as the Pope--but in this book we have the clear teaching of Pope Benedict with some of the same conclusions as he reaches in Jesus of Nazareth, but also a lot more that touches on some issues that were found wanting in the later work by some scholars.
One of Pope Benedict's loudest critics of Jesus of Nazareth was the former Catholic (now Jewish) scholar Geza Vermes who wrote in his review of the book in The Times of London saying "Another recurrent theme in Ratzinger's perception of Christ is that Jesus
intended the Gospel to be preached to all the nations. If so, did he just forget Jesus' sayings that contradict the universality of the apostolic mission, namely, that both Jesus and his disciples were sent only to the "lost sheep of Israel" (Matthew x, 5-6; xv, 24)."
In this book The Apostles, the Pope answers this criticism, showing how the accounts that we have in the Bible show that Jesus clearly intended to create a Church that would reach out beyond the limited scope of Israel. He also provides an excellent overview of what can be known from the Bible and the early church about the first followers of Jesus--as well as what lessons we can derive from their example. This is an excellent follow-up to Jesus of Nazareth and like everything that Joseph Ratzinger writes is clear and precise--while at the same time incredibly inspirational.
The publisher has also created Study Guide for the Apostles by Pope Benedict XVI which will make this book a great small group study item for churches wishing to delve deeper into the Biblical accounts of those Jesus chose to follow Him.
I am the author of The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You.
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