Full Description
How can we explain the difference between the "miraculous" Christianity expressed in the Gospels and the nearly miracle-free Christianity of Paul? In this historically informed study, senior New Testament scholar Graham Twelftree challenges the view that Paul was primarily a thinker and reimagines him as an apostle of Jesus for whom the miraculous was of profound importance. Highlighting often-overlooked material in Paul's letters, Twelftree offers a fresh consideration of what the life and work of Paul might teach us about miracles in early Christianity and sheds light on how early Christians lived out their faith.
Contents
Contents
Part 1: Paul
1. Who Was Paul?
Part 2: Paul's Inheritance
2. Jews and the Miraculous
3. Prophets, Prophecy, and the Miraculous
4. Proselytizing, Propaganda, and the Miraculous
5. The Christianity Paul Inherited
Part 3: Paul's Testimony
6. The Experience of Paul
7. The Ministry of Paul
Part 4: Paul's Interpreters
8. Luke: Paul's Earliest Interpreter
9. The Remembered Paul
Part 5: Paul and the Miraculous
10. The Paul of History and the Apostle of Faith
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