Paul, the Architect of Christianity
He was on his way to arrest people. What happened on the road outside Damascus did not merely change one man — it launched the movement that would become Western Christianity. This book traces Paul's life, his theology of grace and atonement, his extraordinary intellectual gifts, and the framework problems that would haunt the faith he built for twenty centuries.
The Hebrew roots of the Christian God — covenant, sacrifice, and the theological inheritance Paul carried into his letters.
How the Hebrew God of covenant became a God who suffers, requires appeasement, and keeps accounts. The theological DNA Paul inherited.
Jesus as teacher, healer, and radical — what he actually said and did, and why it was so difficult for the institutions that followed to hold it.
Damascus Road. The genius of grace. The atonement framework. What Paul got right and what his framework costs believers still.
Paul's mission across the Mediterranean, the communities he founded, and the letters that became scripture. The institution takes shape.
From movement to institution. The name change at Antioch. What was preserved, what was altered, and what was waiting — for twenty centuries — to be corrected.
"Paul's central intuition — that human beings are already in right relationship with God, that the separation they experience is not ultimate, that grace is not earned and condemnation is not real — is precisely the intuition at the center of A Course in Miracles. Where Paul and the Course differ is not in their understanding of what grace is, but in their explanation of why it is available."
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