Paul
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Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
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ISBN | : 1615923675 |
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Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
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ISBN | : 1615923675 |
Author | : Hyam Maccoby |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9780760707876 |
The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket.
Author | : James D. Tabor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1439123322 |
Draws on St. Paul's letters and other early sources to reveal the apostles' sharply competing ideas about the significance of Jesus and his teachings while demonstrating how St. Paul independently shaped Christianity as it is known today.
Author | : Paul Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451688512 |
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Author | : N. T. Wright |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-09-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080287178X |
Based on various lectures given at various places and times.
Author | : Yoseop Ra |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666717053 |
Although many scholars have studied Paul's theology, they have not provided satisfactory interpretation. This is because his genuine epistles were studied as they have been left in the New Testament. Rather, from a redactional point of view, Paul, the Founder of Christianity approaches Paul's seven epistles: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon. The book reconstructs his life and uncovers the compilation of sixteen short letters into seven epistles. Accordingly, these can be divided according to the chronological order of composition. When the transformation of Paul's theology is traced, one can see a progressive development of Christology, the death of Jesus Christ, redemption and salvation, the Law, the end of world, the spirit of God, and the church of God. As a result, it can be argued that after the Antioch incident, Paul had conflict with the apostles of Jerusalem and founded Christianity for gentiles--an argument that is presented in detail based on the evidence found in Paul's sixteen letters.
Author | : David Wenham |
Publisher | : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802801241 |
David Wenham has returned with new vigor to the old question of the relationship of Pauline thought to the life and teachings of Jesus -- back cover.
Author | : P.D. James |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861077 |
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author | : A N Wilson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393317602 |
A.N. Wilson makes clear in this gripping narrative that Christianity, without Paul, is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of scholarship stripped away, is a fervent Jew who will lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism; it is Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion.