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050	0	4	_aBS2506.W746.P385 1998
100	1		_aWilson, A. N., _d1950-, _e1
245	1	0	_aPaul : _bthe mind of the Apostle / _cA.N. Wilson. _hPR
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton and Company, _c(c)1998.
300			_a273 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	0		_aAs biographer Wilson makes clear in this 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. In Wilson's narrative, which lays bare the psychological journey of Christianity's true inventor, 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.--From publisher description.
530			_a2
630	0	0	_aBible. _pNew Testament _vBiography.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell