Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all Over Again
by George WeigelWe are living, today, the crisis of division that caused St. Paul such grief. And as the Church is universal, so is the crisis. Continue Reading »
All Things to All People
by Michael C. LegaspiPaul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuriesby patrick graybaker, 274 pages, $32.99 Albert Schweitzer once remarked that the quest for the historical Jesus revealed more about the questers than it did about Jesus: They saw in the historical figure . . . . Continue Reading »
Christmas and a World Upside-Down
by George WeigelBiblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians at Corinth. Yet whatever the dating, and irrespective of scholarly disputes about whether “Luke,” the author of the eponymous Gospel and the Acts of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Romans 1 & 2 on the Feast of St. Paul
by Fr. Dominic BouckThis has been a wild weekend. The Supreme Court handing down its decisive ruling that marriage is malleable was not surprising, but it created an air of certainty and solemnity to the fact that proponents of a traditional society—Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-religious alike—have lost . . . . Continue Reading »
The first E-pistle of @SaulofTarsus to his Followers on Instagram
by Clare HalpineDear brothers and hipsters, I, @SaulofTarsus, mimetically writing to you from my iPhone, do exhort you to excuse any exegetical errors. This week, suffering from #FOMO, all things became oppressive and dark—not in a Lo-Fi or Brennan kind of way, but in a terribly Normal kind of way. Aiming my . . . . Continue Reading »
Traditio Deformis
by David Bentley HartThe long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and its riches are too numerous and exquisitely various adequately to classify. But I think one can arrange most of them along a single continuum in four broad divisions: some . . . . Continue Reading »
Shipwreck and Mission
by George WeigelThe post-Vatican II Lectionary for Mass has many fine features, one of which is the continuous reading of the Acts of the Apostles during weekday Masses in the Easter season. As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history-shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been Continue Reading »
A Pauline Exegete Watches Aronofsky’s Noah
by Wesley HillDarren Aronofsky’s Noah portrays the patriarch as a man of mercy. But according to St. Paul’s theology, even the godly patriarchs needed mercy for themselves. Continue Reading »
What Saint Paul Originally Said
by Wesley HillDid St. Paul’s originality as a thinker, preacher, and letter-writer lie in his Christology or in his teaching on the inclusion of the Gentiles in the Church? Trying to answer that question on its own terms misses the interconnectedness of Paul’s Christology and his missionary practice. Continue Reading »
The Road from Damascus
by Edward T. OakesPaul of Tarsus: A Visionary Lifeby Edward Stourton.Paulist, 224 pages, $24. St. Paul is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. Among Jews, Paul tends to grate on sensibilities even more than does Jesus. Actually, as to Jesus, one can detect a rapprochement, however wary, on the part of several . . . . Continue Reading »
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