Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781400162567ISBN:1400162564
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SPCK PUBLISHING Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780281061587ISBN:0281061580
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 2009-03-01
ISBN-13:9780061430725ISBN:0061430722
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061430725ISBN:0061430722
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Date Published: 2009-05-28
ISBN-13:9781400112562ISBN:1400112567
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Date Published: 2009-05-28
ISBN-13:9781400142569ISBN:1400142563
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Publisher: Findaway World Llc
Date Published: 2009-08-01
ISBN-13:9781608479979ISBN:1608479978
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"I thought it was a little light at first but as I read through it I began to really see things differently and to ponder on some new ideas. Really enjoyed it."
"I used to have a very negative view of Paul. I thought Paul was very sexist and promoted immorality like slavery and I thought Paul was the opposite of everything Jesus stood for. But this book by the biblical scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan explains how the issues with Paul's writings are much more complex than this. Like Paul didn't actually write all the letters attributed to him. The Pastorial epistles which contain the verses I found troubling about Paul in regards to women was actually written by later Christian scribes who were writing in Paul's name long after Paul had died. Even in the authentic letters of Paul, there are chapters attributed to Paul that were added in later to suppress the role of women in the church. In actuality, women played a very large role in Paul's early church. Phoebe was a female deacon, Junia was an apostle who was a woman, and women and men were equal partners in a marriage relationship.
I also appreciated how they went into a detailed verse-by-verse examination of Philemon as Philemon is a book that isn't really study that much in church and show that Paul was actually very anti-slavery and pro-slavery books were written in Paul's name by the later church. Borg and Crossan then examine Paul's theological beliefs and the history and flaws of the classic orthodox view of atonement theology. My only disappointment was that I wish they had examined the rest of orthodox Pauline beliefs like original sin and his views on the afterlife but you would probably have to devote a whole different book just to Paul's theology alone and I still give this book five stars because I think it succeeded in what it set out to do and I don't have any other real complaints with it. If you've only had a negative view of Paul or if you're only familiar with the orthodox views of Paul and want to see a different way of reading Paul, I highly recommend this very fascinating and challenging book."
"The writing is a tad dry in places, but the authors present a thoroughly researched and argued, scholarly objective and yet still easy to read and understand case that there was more than one Paul responsible for the letters of Paul in the New Testament. And that the real, "first" Paul was actually a radical in terms of the religion, society and (especially) politics of his day, rather than the conservative, status quo supporter he's usually viewed as (One of the two most anti-gay parts of the Bible, for example, comes in a letter from Paul, although it is one probably written by a third Paul; passages of some of the letters also seem to support the subjugation of women and the support of slavery).
Not only was Paul not such a bad guy, according to the authors, but he actually seems like he was probably pretty awesome.
Also something of a revelation (if one can use that word when talking about Christian theology in this context) was the authors' interpretation of Paul's interpretation of some of the central mysteries of Christianity, and how different they were from what now seems to be commonplace."
"Borg's book is actually a "popular" (i.e., journalistic) presentation of ideas floating about in liberal New Testament history/theology circles for many years. The basic premises are that the Paul presented in his Epistles differs from that presented in Acts, that many Epistles attributed to Paul could not have been written by him, and that the "original" Paul was a radical, egalitarian thinker, not the arch-conservative ("Slaves, obey your masters; wives, be subservient to your husbands) so appealing to Fundamentalists."
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