Joseph Callewaert\'s engaging work on St.
If I have perhaps evoked a little too much history and pursued rather too long a road in regions so rich with a past, I have always made sure to trace a path which brings us back to this intrepid and tenacious Jew who will steadilyappear in stark relief."From the Preface.
Paul, I have tried to absorb the spirit of his epoch as far as I could, and put less trust in the present-day judgments than in the abiding traditions of the ages. "In my presentation of St.
Paul-which includes many Christians-it is a superb introduction.
For those who know little about St.
The World of Saint Paul provides a popular, yet expert account of the Apostle and his age.
Yet Callewaert\'s work is no anti-scholarly screed.
His interpretation rests on the Bible and the abiding tradition of the ages, rather than tendentious theories or ideologically-motivated revisions.
Callewaert rejects this theory, as do many other scholars.
The Christian faith, so the claim runs, is the creation of Paul\'s religious experience, not the doctrine of Jesus.
They believe his message radically departed from what Jesus taught.
Some scholars claim he "invented" Christianity.
Paul remains controversial.
Nor is its subject a "safe" historical figure, irrelevant to the issues of today: St.
This is no dry tome or ponderous biography.
With inviting, even dramatic, prose, it recounts the story of the great Apostle to the Nations.
Paul reads like a novel.
Joseph Callewaert\'s engaging work on St
