The Conversion of Saint Paul by Domenico Morelli, 1876. The reason Paul was ‘doing theology’ was not that he happened to have the kind of brain that delighted in playing with and rearranging large, complex abstract ideas. He was doing theology because the life of God’s people depended on it, depended on his doing it… Continue reading A Primer on Pauline Theology
Like most of us, there is a secret story in my life that will not be fully told until we are gathered around the heavenly cabin with the Carpenter from Nazareth once this life has been folded up like an old blanket and put away for good. Although I have learned much from books both… Continue reading . . . let the children come unto me.
I believe that we need to read Paul with a sense of his own intense conviction that he was exploring a new country—as fertile, beautiful and exhilarating, above all as real and tangible in its working, as any that a sixteenth-century sailor might have run across in his voyages of discovery. Did Paul transform Christianity?… Continue reading The Story of Paul’s Life and Ministry
Christ and His Disciples on the Road to Bethany, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1903 THE GOSPELS: THE LORD HAS RISEN The reader might at this point be wondering why we did not begin with the resurrection narratives in the gospels, rather than starting with Paul. The reason is that Paul’s letters pre-date the gospels by… Continue reading THE STORY OF EASTER ACCORDING TO THE EVAGELISTS
Light photographed as both a particle and wave –Energy-space photography of light confined on a nanowire, simultaneously shows both spatial interference and energy quantization. Source: Fabrizio Carbone/EPFL The historical datum now before us is a widely held, consistently shaped and highly influential belief: that Jesus of Nazareth was bodily raised from the dead. This belief… Continue reading The Story of Easter according to the Apostle Paul, “The New Testament In Its World,” Chapter 13
The Carpenter's Nail 