James: The Lord’s Brother

William Patrick wrote James, the Lord’s Brother in order to cover what he saw as a gap in early church history. He states in his preface that, “I can form no conception of a James who is at once the James of the epistle and the Acts and the James of Hegesippus.” He discusses James’ history and life, his role in the early church, the epistle of James, and examines the participants of the Congress at Jerusalem.