Table of Contents

1. What does Paul have to do with religion?: Beginning the conversation; 2. What kind of religious interlocutor is Paul?: Understandings and misunderstandings; 3. What is the religious form of life for Paul?: Going wrong and getting right; 4. What does the Pauline religious form of life have to do with death?: Amazing grace; 5. What for Paul is the nature of the religious form of community?: Body, family, love; 6. How, for Paul, should life 'in Christ' be lived?: Love and do what you will; 7. What, for Paul, are the marks of membership?: Bodies and hearts; 8. How, for Paul, does a religious community relate to others?: Insiders and outsiders; 9. Paul and religion: the conversation continues.

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Explores the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity.

About the Author

Paul W. Gooch is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Partial Knowledge: Philosophical Studies in Paul (1987) and Reflections on Jesus and Socrates: Word and Silence (1997).