Half-Resurrection Man

Keith Hopkins

  • Paul: A Critical Life by Jerome Murphy O’Connor
    Oxford, 416 pp, £35.00, June 1996, ISBN 0 19 826749 5
  • Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson
    Sinclair-Stevenson, 274 pp, £17.99, March 1997, ISBN 1 85619 542 2

There were many St Pauls in Antiquity. Even more are still being invented. About each, there are stories, doubts, ambiguities. One problem is that Paul is an icon of early Christianity, and of Western culture. His central significance for later Christian theology means that any interpretation of his thought is necessarily grounded in personal belief, or prejudice. Objectivity is neither achievable, nor perhaps desirable. And this problem is compounded for those who wish to write about his life and character, because we know extraordinarily little about either.

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