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| Paul: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) | 
 enlarge | Author: E. P. Sanders
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14680
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0192854518
Dewey Decimal Number: 225.92
EAN: 9780192854513
ASIN: 0192854518
Publication Date: February 22, 2001
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 Good introduction to the great man November 15, 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.
 A vivid introduction to St Paul's thinking January 14, 2004
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
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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