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Fulton Oursler (born Charles Fulton Oursler)was an American journalist, editor, and writer. He was a notable author of mysteries and detective fiction under the name Anthony Abbot. In the 1920s heaidedHarry Houdiniin his crusade against fraudulentmediumship. After touring the Middle East in 1935, Oursler became very interested in religion and Christian ethics in particular. In 1943 he and his family converted to Roman Catholicism.Some of his books include Spirit Mediums Exposed, A Skeptic in the Holy Land, The Precious Secret, Father Flanagan of Boys Town, The Greatest Story Ever Told- A Tale of the Greatest Life Ever Lived, and Lights Along the Shore. The Greatest Story Ever Toldwas made into an Oscar-nominated movie.
The Bible's Own Story of Men who Spread the Religion of Jesus and of the Momentous Times in which They Lived - so reads the sub-title. The late Fulton Oursler possessed the happy faculty of being able to take familiar material and re-cast it in such a readable style and with such dramatic emphases as to make it read like the morning paper or the current magazine. In this book he covers the story of early Christianity as given in the book of The ?? and the following books of the New Testament. Beginning with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending with the vision of John on Patmos as recorded in the book of ?? the story is unfolded in short chapters suitable for a newspaper column or daily devotional reading. While Oursler was a Catholic, his presentation has no bias. He adheres strictly to the Biblical account and the traditional interpretation of it. (Kirkus Reviews)
