Paul: The Mind of the Apostle

by A. N. Wilson (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1998

  $22.75

  This life of Saint Paul, illuminates Paul's motives in converting from Judaism and starting the Christian church and relating his life to the history of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the psychological motives behind Paul's life, the author shows how the apostle invented Christianity through his proselytizing, his teachings, and his negotiating the perilous political currents of the Roman Empire.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.42

  Jesus was no Christian, and his friends made no effort to break away from Jesus's religion, Judaism. What we call Christianity began with a Jew from Eastern Turkey known to the world as Paul of Tarsus. Paul has had many detractors, believing him to be the originator of the Christian prejudice against women and homosexuals, or the bigoted theologue who distorted the message of Jesus. This book sees a different Paul, the first of the great romantic poets, the man who made the crucified Jesus his inner light and in so doing preserved the image of Christ the Saviour for posterity.