Paul

The Founder of Christianity

By: Gerd Ludemann

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Paperback | 30 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann continues his exploration of the life and teachings of Paul in this groundbreaking monograph, which synthesizes the research of his four previous books on Christianity''s leading apostle. As the subtitle of the present work makes clear, Lüdemann comes to the conclusion that Paul should be considered not only Christianity''s most influential proselytizer but in truth deserves the title of founder of the religion that ostensibly originated with Jesus of Nazareth. Though other scholars have previously made the point that Paul''s interpretation of the Christian message actually obscured the original teachings of Jesus, Lüdemann goes further. His painstaking historical research shows that Paul created the major tenets of the Christianity we know today and that his theology - an original synthesis of Hebrew and Greek belief systems - differs significantly from what we now know the historical Jesus to have preached.

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Preface	p. 9
The Search for the Historical Paul	p. 13
A Life and a Chronology of Paul	p. 22
Paul's Letter to Philemon	p. 65
Paul the Jew	p. 88
Paul the Greco-Roman	p. 113
Paul the Christian	p. 138
Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ	p. 166
Paul and Jesus	p. 193
Paul and Founder of Christianity	p. 213
Paul's Relevance for Today	p. 227
Epilogue	p. 243
Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians - A Counterforgery	p. 247
Criticism of Paul in the Letter of James and in the Second Letter of Peter	p. 253
The Hellenists are Precursors of Paul	p. 259
Select Bibliography	p. 283
Index of Select New Testament Passages	p. 287
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