Author Nick Page to visit Belfast
The Good Book Shop is bringing to Belfast, well–known author, Nick Page, to speak exclusively in St Molua’s Parish on 4 June at 8.00 pm. He is coming to Belfast to promote his new book ‘Kingdom of Fools – The Unlikely Rise of the Early Church’, which is due to be released in paperback next month.
This is Nick’s first visit to Belfast in nearly 20 years, and one of a series of events that The Good Book Shop is running to mark its 10th anniversary.
Nick who is an historian, information designer and creative consultant is also the author of over seventy books for adults and children including The Wrong Messiah, God’s Dangerous Book, The One–Stop Bible Guide, The Big Story, and a series called The Furry Freedom Fighters – a comic book series for kids about super–powered pets!
About the book, ‘Kingdom of Fools – The Unlikely Rise of the Early Church’
To the rest of the world they were fools. Rebels. Ignorant peasants. People who shunned wealth and power and welcomed the poor and uneducated. These first followers of Jesus were persecuted and their leaders killed, yet this ragged collection of lowly tradesmen, women, and slaves created a movement that changed the world. How did this happen? How did the kingdom of fools conquer the mighty empire that was Rome?
In this fascinating biography of the early church, Nick Page sets the biblical accounts alongside the latest historical and archaeological research, exploring how the early Christians lived and worshipped – and just why the Romans found this new branch of the Jewish faith so difficult to comprehend. Kingdom of Fools is a fresh, challenging, accessible portrait of a movement so radical, so dangerous, so thrillingly different that it outlasted the empire that tried to destroy it and went on to become the driving force of our cultural development – and claims more followers today than ever before in history.