'The task of the Christian Church in this, as in any other age, is to communicate to men the truth of God as we find it in the word of God, ' writes the author. Dr Barclay. rightly described as one of the foremost communicators of Christianity today, here sets about that task, of showing how and why it should be done. As always. his work is written against the full biblical background ('Communicating the Gospel in the Prophets"); a description of the way the Apostles went about their task ('Communicating the Gospel in the Apostles'): thence to the challenge of doing so today ('we can never communicate Jesus Christ to others until we know him ourselves'); and closes with an outline of the Gospel in Tradition'.
William Barclay was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
While professor, he decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the Daily Study Bible, a set of 17 commentaries on the New Testament, published by Saint Andrew Press, the Church of Scotland's publishing house.
The 17 volumes of the set were all best-sellers and continue to be so to this day. Barclay wrote many other popular books, always drawing on scholarship but written in a highly accessible style.
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