Imagine Paul
Apostle of God
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Can the real Paul the apostle live again in a postmodern, technological age? Paul's ministry stood at the very headwaters of the Christian gospel surrounding Jesus of Nazareth. His letters are the earliest documents contained in the New Testament. The current work calls upon the reader to actively engage Paul in his context, rather than to affirm the assumed theological Paul of later Christian orthodoxy. The reader is thus invited to walk with a more real Paul as he may be imagined from the sources we have, to think Paul's thoughts with him through his letters, and to more fully experience the gospel of God that Paul knew and proclaimed. Paul was a "man in Christ" directly called by God to announce the gospel of God to both Jew and gentile in the midst of a world ruled by Rome. He did so through two major campaigns, rather than "three missionary journeys." He wrote pastoral letters to real first-century churches. The real Paul did not write theology, but he rather proclaimed a gospel to a world in search of a soul.
Endorsements (5)
“Imagine owning one volume to which you could turn for the life and work, travels and letters, history and geography of Paul, along with timelines and maps which help it all come clear—all offered in the thoughtful voice of a pastoral scholar who has given much of his life to learning Paul and teaching Paul in and for the university and the church. Imagine that, and you will have imagined a bit of G. Roger Greene’s Imagine Paul.”
“A devoted Christian disciple and lifelong student of Paul invites readers on a pilgrimage through the landscape of Pauline letters to encounter Paul unshackled from millennia of interpretation. Meet the first-century Pharisaic Jewish apostle and evangelist to the Greco-Roman world who became a new man in Christ and proclaimed the gospel of God. Paul’s resurrection faith as presented by the author yet calls for faithful response. Imagine Paul is good tonic for the modern soul!”
“Developed through decades of extensive research and experience, Imagine Paul seeks to allow the apostle Paul to live again. G. Roger Greene invites the reader to imagine, or to reimagine, Paul and his message within Paul’s own historical, cultural, and spiritual matrices as presented in the New Testament record. Scholar, student, and seeker alike will profit from Greene’s informed, insightful, and innovative treatment.”
“Consciously tying himself to the mast of Paul’s epistles, G. Roger Greene rigorously constructs an understanding of the apostle from what he said, rather than what was said about him—even in Acts. His original concept of Paul’s ‘epistolic’ theology is worth the price of the book. I found myself alternately enlightened, encouraged, challenged, convicted, even irritated here and there, but most of all, stretched. Greene’s gift is to move his readers beyond illumination to doxology and worship.”
“In Imagine Paul, G. Roger Greene has provided a comprehensive treatment of the apostle Paul’s historical context, biography, letter writing method and purposes, and theology. Unique is Greene’s well-reasoned argument that understanding Paul must go through every interpreter’s imagination within the constraints of actual historical, geographical, lexical, and archaeological evidence. One foundational aspect of such evidence is that Paul’s biography should start from his letters with Acts serving in a supportive role. Highly recommended!”
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