A dramatic roadside conversion turned Saul into Paul (circa AD ... role in helping Christianity to become a new religion in its own right. In the end, Paul had turned a small Jewish splinter ...

Catholic voters may not like Trump, but can recognize it’s not just the sanctity of human life at stake, but questions of ...

For this cause, from the beginning, Paul was a most fervent zealot for the traditions of the Jews and a great persecutor of the Church of Christ; at that time, his name was Saul (Acts 22:3-4 ...

So when we hear Paul talking about the message of Jesus Christ and him crucified, we're beginning to get for the first time in the New Testament the language that will become the hallmark of all ...

In the case of Paul, he claimed the title of apostle for ... because of the importance of their work in writing the New Testament Gospels. In the first years after the Crucifixion, Christianity ...

The persecutor Saul encounters Jesus ... His named is changed to Paul and Acts follows his life. He is also the author of many of the letters in the New Testament. Church authority becomes a ...

Dr Helen K Bond is a Senior Lecturer in the New Testament and Director of the Centre for Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity. The apostle Paul often gets a bad press.

Did Paul ever meet Jesus and hear him teach? A century ago, a curious assortment of scholars - William Ramsay, Johannes Weiss, and James Hope Moulton - thought that he had. Since then, their idea has ...

Over the last several decades, scholars have offered fresh interpretations of the apostle, including the New Perspective on and the apocalyptic reading of Paul. Van Driel juxtaposes ... too much ...

In the New Testament epistles (letters written to people ... you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). Moreover, Paul wrote about how to please God: “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters ...

Let’s explore examples of forgiveness embedded in the stories of both the Old and New Testaments ... The story of Saul, who ...