The Apostles Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to the Twelve, Paul, the Early Church, Apostolic Tradition, and the Mission That Changed Christianity (Christianity Explained) - Softcover

Abeto, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798177034126

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Who were the apostles, and what can we actually know about them?

Peter, John, Thomas, James, Andrew, Judas, Paul: their names shaped Christianity. But the historical evidence behind their lives, missions, deaths, and later traditions is far more complicated than the familiar stories suggest.

The Apostles Explained offers an accessible guide to the Twelve, Paul, and the first generations of the Christian movement. It begins with the world of Jesus and asks what an apostle originally was, why Jesus chose twelve, how the earliest Church developed, and what happened as the Christian mission moved beyond Jerusalem.

Along the way, the book examines Peter and Rome, Thomas and India, James and Spain, apostolic martyrdom traditions, relics and tombs, New Testament authorship, apostolic succession, and the ways Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, and other Christian traditions understand continuity with the apostles.

Rather than treating every ancient tradition as fact or dismissing later Christian memory as legend, Paul Abeto distinguishes between New Testament evidence, early historical testimony, later tradition, and what modern scholarship can reasonably conclude.

A clear introduction for readers who want to understand how the apostles became the bridge between Jesus and the Christianity that followed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798177034126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278