Albert Mohler today writes about "Ten Great Christian Biographies." The ten includes books about Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, and Whitefield. Mohler says:
We read biographies because worthy portraits of our fellow human beings help us to make sense of the world. We are especially fascinated by the lives of those who have made a difference in the world - whose mark remains visible even now. The lives of the famous and the infamous make for compelling reading.
As Benjamin Disraeli, a famous author as well as Queen Victoria's favorite Prime Minister, once remarked, biography is "life without theory." In other words, at their best biographies take us into the real lives of real persons as they were really lived. ....
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