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100 1 $aWilson, A. N.,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77003675
245 10 $aPaul :$bthe mind of the Apostle /$cA.N. Wilson.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c1997.
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300 $a273 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aAs A. N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Jesus, makes clear in this astonishing and gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of exegesis, scholarship, and ceremony stripped away, is a Jew, a fastidious and fervent Jew, who would lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism. It is Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion.
520 8 $aIn Wilson's deft and psychologically astute narrative, we see Paul negotiating the dangerous political currents of the Roman Empire; traveling everywhere; making converts; writing the great epistles that define our understanding of Christ and the sublime paradoxes of his teaching; defusing the natural antagonism of the supreme temporal power to this dangerous spiritual force, Christianity, which would in time consume that empire from within.
520 8 $aWhat drove Paul? What fueled this act of inspired creativity? What would he think of what his church has become? The answers lie in Wilson's extraordinary biography, which lays bare the psychological journey of Christianity's true inventor.
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