After Jesus himself, the Apostle Paul is considered by many to be the most important person in the history of Christianity.
And according to many, Paul is everything that went wrong with Christianity.
Meet our guests
Douglas J. Moo is a New Testament scholar who, after teaching for more than twenty years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, has served as Blanchard Professor of New Testament at the Wheaton College Graduate School since 2000. His areas of research are Pauline Theology, Creation Theology (with special reference to environmental issues), Galatians, Hebrews. Moo’s latest book is A Theology of Paul and His Letters.
Dr. Lynn Cohick received her bachelor’s degree from Messiah College in Grantham, PA, and her Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Cohick presently serves as Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs of Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She also teach New Testament and leading the development of DMin and MA programs in women’s studies, and the Women’s Center for Leadership at Northern Seminary.
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This episode was sponsored by Zondervan’s new book Believing Philosophy by Dolores G. Morris.
For a full transcript of this episode, click here.
- Read 2 Corinthians 11 for yourself, which you hear at the beginning of our episode.
- AN Wilson’s biography of Paul: Paul: The Mind of the Apostle.
- Watch the 2018 film Paul, Apostle of Christ, with James Faulkner playing Paul.
- Read more about Gamaliel, Paul’s teacher.
- NT Wright’s biography of Paul: Paul: A Biography.
- Watch the full monologue of Paul that we played during the episode, by Vantage Stories as acted by Andrew Branham.
- Here are the various theories on what happened to Paul on the road to Damascus:
- Paul saw a fireball meteor and was ‘blinded by the light’.
- Paul had temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Evidence for Paul and his life (outside the Book of Acts and Paul’s own letters)
- First Letter of Clement
- Multiple references to Paul in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch
- Check out our very first episode, Old Papers, when John got to examine some of the earliest manuscripts of Paul’s letters, called P46.
- Here is Barrie Wilson’s book, How Jesus Became Christian… though this whole episode is basically refuting his position.
- Read more from Lynn Cohick on Paul and women:
- Why the Apostle Paul doesn’t hate women: Eternity News
- Women in the early church, from The Table Podcast, Dallas Theological Seminary.
- Lynn Cohick on Ephesians, from the Crux Sola blog on Patheos.
- For the 20+ details we learn about Jesus just from Paul’s letters, listen to Episode 25, Bible Mistakes with Craig Blomberg or read the ‘5 Minute Jesus’ from that episode, here.
- In a bonus answer for our Q&A episode in Season 3, John answered a listener question about the authorship of the Book of Hebrews, one of the letters that many scholars suggest wasn’t written by Paul. Listen to John’s answer here.
- Read the full article by Tom Holland, which Tom kindly read for us for the conclusion of this episode. It’s called Paul the Apostle and the Creation of Christianity from HistoryAnswers.
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