St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

by Karen Armstrong

Book Overview

St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544617398
• ISBN13: 9780544617391
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: New Harvest
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

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I've come to the part where the author describes Paul's Greco-Roman world as "a miracle culture: inscriptions, poems and orations all celebrated astounding deeds that filled the populace with amazement". The book is full of these kinds of insights that are so important to understanding early Christianity.