Paul A Brief History

Seesengood traces the life and impact of Paul - one of Christianity's most influential figures - through the major periods Christian history. Exploring the changing interpretations of Paul and his work, the author throws new light on his writings and on religious history.Offers a unique, insightful journey through the many and varied interpretations of Paul's life and work over 2,000 years - from the Gnostic controversy, to Luther and the Reformation, to contemporary debates over religion and scienceExplains Paul's pivotal role within Christian history, and how his missionary journeys, canonized epistles and theological insights were cornerstones of the early Church and central to the formation of Christian doctrineArgues that each new interpretation of Paul is the result of a fresh set of cultural, social and ideological circumstances - and so questions whether it is ever possible to discover the real Paul

Robert Paul Seesengood is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Albright College. He is the author of Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christianity (2006), and has written numerous articles on Paul and Pauline studies.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction: Meeting Paul Again for the First Time	p. 1
What Do We Know About "Paul," and How Do We Know It?	p. 13
Who Is "Paul"?	p. 14
Sifting the Data: Five Starting Assumptions	p. 20
More Problems: The Question of Canon	p. 44
Sorting through the Data: The Range of Scholarly Views	p. 47
(Finally) A Brief Tour of Paul's Letters	p. 53
The Acts of the Apostles	p. 68
Hebrews	p. 72
Paul in the Ante-Nicene Church	p. 74
What is "Ante-Nicene" Christianity?	p. 75
Some Ancient "Heretics": Marcion and the Gnostics	p. 77
Marcion's Paul	p. 79
Marcion's Bible	p. 81
Lessons from Marcion	p. 83
Paul Outside the New Testament	p. 84
Pseudepigraphy: A Closer Look	p. 88
The Developing "Science" of Biblical Interpretation	p. 91
Paul in Late Antiquity	p. 98
Western and Eastern Christianity	p. 98
Canon Closure	p. 100
Augustine of Hippo	p. 102
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite	p. 118
The Medieval Paul(s)	p. 125
Paul and the Bible in the Middle Ages	p. 126
Diversity of Thought in the Middle Ages	p. 127
Paul as the Scholar	p. 129
Paul and Medieval Cosmology and Anthropology	p. 131
Paul and the Doctrine of Transubstantiation	p. 132
Social and Civil Order	p. 136
Paul and Medieval Anti-Judaism	p. 140
Paul the Ascetic and Mystic	p. 142
Paul and the Rise of Protestant Christianity	p. 148
Luther's Challenge	p. 148
Sola Scriptura	p. 150
The Science of Biblical Interpretation	p. 154
Luther's Reading of Paul's View of the Jews	p. 157
Paul in the Age of Colonization	p. 165
The Rise of European Colonization	p. 165
The Rise of Christian Missions	p. 167
Debating Biblical Historicity	p. 170
The Letter to Philemon and Debates over Slavery	p. 174
Paul in the Twentieth Century	p. 183
Late Modernism and Postmodernism	p. 184
Early Twentieth-Century Biblical Scholarship	p. 186
Counter-responses	p. 188
Debates over the Bible and the Rise of Anti-Semitism	p. 190
Redeeming Paul: Paul in the Later Twentieth Century	p. 194
Paul and Subjectivity	p. 195
The "New Perspective" on Paul (Paul and Judaism)	p. 199
Paul and Gender	p. 201
Paul and Sexual Preference	p. 204
Paul and Politics and Ethnicity	p. 207
The Historicity of the Pauline Writings and Acts (again)	p. 208
Paul and the Fragmentation of the Twentieth Century	p. 210
Paul and Postmodernity	p. 211
The Quest for the Historical Paul; or, What did we find if we couldn't find Paul?	p. 214
(Auto) biography and Paul	p. 214
Where Is Paul?	p. 216
Questing	p. 217
The Ethics of Historical Reconstructions	p. 219
Comparing the Historical Data for Paul and for Jesus	p. 223
Implications: The Language of Paul	p. 227
Further Reading	p. 230
Index of New Testament Citations	p. 242
Index of Subjects and Proper Names	p. 246
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