Overview

This is a riposte to A.N. Wilson's book, ""Paul: The Mind of the Apostle"", which posited that Paul of Tarsus, not Jesus of Nazareth, was the founder of Christianity. The book aims to show how Wilson's arguments cover ground already well covered by biblical historians, and that these arguments fail to take account of the evidence which shows that while Paul's achievement was indeed to make Christianity available beyond the bounds of its original Jewish context, this did not involve re-inventing Jesus in the process. Tom Wright is the author of ""The Climax of the Covenant"", ""Colossians and Philemon"", ""Romans"", ""Who Was Jesus?"" and ""The Original Jesus"".

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Author:   Tom Wright
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Imprint:   Lion Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.169kg
ISBN:  

9780745937977

ISBN 10:   0745937977
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   24 October 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chapter 1 – Puzzling Over Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 2 – Saul the Persecutor, Paul the Convert . . . . . . 25 Chapter 3 – Herald of the King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter 4 – Paul and Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Chapter 5 – Good News for the Pagans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Chapter 6 – Good News for Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Chapter 7 – Justification and the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Chapter 8 – God’s Renewed Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 9 – Paul’s Gospel Then and Now . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Chapter 10 – Paul, Jesus and Christian Origins . . . . . . . 167 Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Reviews

A well informed and readable exposition of the more modern approach to Paul, an admirable little book. * Priests & People * `A cogent exposition of Paul’s central teaching on the person of Christ.’ * Times Literary Supplement *

A well informed and readable exposition of the more modern approach to Paul, an admirable little book. Priests & People 'A cogent exposition of Paul's central teaching on the person of Christ.' Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Tom Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is the author of more than 80 influential books, including The New Testament for Everyone, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, The Day the Revolution Began, Paul: A biography, The New Testament in its World, On Earth as in Heaven and Into the Heart of Romans (all published by SPCK).

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