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Paul: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback)

by E. P. Sanders (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (22 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192854518
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192854513
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,505 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"An incisive summation of the essentials of Paul's career and role in development of early Christianity. Sanders highlights key elements in Pauline thought."--Harry Rosenberg, Colorado State Univ.
"This book is lucid and judicious. It's the most concise introduction to Paul I've seen, and it is excellent as a quick intro at the beginning of a course, preparing the students for further study of Paul's letters themselves."--Jeffrey A. Trumbower, St. Michael's College
"This short readable volume is packed with the wisdom and insights of a scholar whose contribution to the field of Pauline studies is respected around the world."--J. Samuel Escobar, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
"Written clearly, and the focus is on the most important issues. The 'participation' business is treated well."--David P. Efroymson, La Salle University


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Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. In his highly original introduction to Paul's life and thought, E. P. Sanders, whose research on Paul has substantially influenced recent scholarship, pays equal attention to Paul's fundamental convictions and the sometimes convoluted ways in which they were worked out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A vivid introduction to St Paul's thinking, 14 Jan 2004
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In this short book E. P. Sanders provides a lucid account of St Paul’s theology. Paul’s life was a dramatic one: having been a Pharisee who had persecuted Christians he underwent a dramatic conversion in which he felt himself called to be Christ’s apostle to the Gentiles. This brought him into conflict with those Jewish Christians who believed that Jesus’s message was for the Jews only. Sanders explores Paul’s thought as it is developed in the letters he wrote (the New Testament books of Romans, Corinthians, Galatians etc). Paul emerges as a passionate and inspired theologian, above all a practical theologian. He was not concerned with theology as a dry academic discipline but with solving the problems of the young churches which he had helped to set up. (Should Christians be circumcised? Did salvation from Christ exempt Christians from the law? Is speaking in tongues more important than charity?) The tensions, and occasional contradictions, that Sanders highlights in Paul’s thinking reveal a depth and creativity that later Christian thinkers who have strived harder for consistency often lack. This is an excellent introduction to one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of Christianity.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to the great man, 15 Nov 2008
I found this a very good albeit basic introduction to St Paul and as a Catholic I was a little wary of reading an eminent Protestant scholar's views.

I think that the author was an objective scholar and his honesty left him with no other choice but to admit that Martin Luther seriously misinterpreted the Pauline Epistles at the time of the Reformation - something that the Catholic Church had already made abundantly clear at the Council of Trent in the Sixteenth Century.
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