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A Primer on Pauline Theology

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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

The Story of Paul’s Life and Ministry

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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

The Story of Easter according to the Apostle Paul, “The New Testament In Its World,” Chapter 13

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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 Afterlife in Greek, Roman, and Jewish Thought – Chapter 12, “The New Testament In Its World”

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Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Old Age, 1842 (National Gallery of Art) Once a man has died, and the dust has soaked up his blood, there is no resurrection. - Aesch. Eumen While the pyre was burning, it is said that a cloud passed under Hercules and with a peal of thunder wafted him… Continue reading The Afterlife in Greek, Roman, and Jewish Thought – Chapter 12, “The New Testament In Its World”

The New Testament In Its World, Chapter 11 – “The Death of the Messiah”

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The New Testament In Its World, April 6, 2025Chapter 11 – “The Death of the Messiah” The quotes below are all taken from "The New Testament In Its World," Wright and Bird, Zondervan. Somehow, Jesus’s death was seen by Jesus himself, and then by those who told and ultimately wrote his story, as the ultimate… Continue reading The New Testament In Its World, Chapter 11 – “The Death of the Messiah”