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Good introduction to the great man 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 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,... more info
