- Publisher: Atlantic
- Year: 2015
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 154pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781782398158
- Product code: 546768
St Paul
The Misunderstood Apostle
Karen Armstrong New Paperback
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Not only is St Paul the earliest extant Christian writer but he also established the first churches in Europe and Asia, exerting significant influence on the spread of the sect that would become the Roman Empire’s official religion. Although Paul has been criticized for his authoritarian views, Armstrong uses evidence from his seven authentic letters to reveal his radical opposition to the structural inequalities of his 1st-century world.
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St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the world than any other figure in history.
It was Paul who established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century, Paul who transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization, and Paul who advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. While we know little about some aspects of the life of St Paul - his upbringing, the details of his death - his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that followed forever changed the course of history.
It was Paul who established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century, Paul who transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization, and Paul who advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. While we know little about some aspects of the life of St Paul - his upbringing, the details of his death - his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that followed forever changed the course of history.
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Not only is St Paul the earliest extant Christian writer but he also established the first churches in Europe and Asia, exerting significant influence on the spread of the sect that would become the Roman Empire’s official religion. Although Paul has been criticized for his authoritarian views, Armstrong uses evidence from his seven authentic letters to reveal his radical opposition to the structural inequalities of his 1st-century world.
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