Paul Confronts the World Again: The Apostle"s Voice in Augustine, Luther, Wesley and Barth

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781577361534


Throughout the ages when certain individuals have decided that the world needed turning upside down, they have started with Paul"s Letter to the Romans. Consider Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth. Though the timeline of these four spans more than 1600 years, at some point in their lives they each had an encounter with the Apostle Paul and it shaped their ideas, outlooks, and legacies. In this book, the author examines the Paul"s influence on the Christian Church as embodied in these four giants of the Christian faith, discussing each one"s theological development and the dissension and controversy that sometimes surrounded each person as a result of their interpretations of Paul"s writing.