Do We Still Need St Paul?
A Contemporary Reading of the Apostle
Kieran J O'Mahony OSA ISBN 978-1-84730-171-0 €15.95

In this study by Kieran O'Mahony OSA, the experience, spirituality and teaching of St Paul are made available for further examination by those already familiar with the life and times of the earliest and perhaps greatest Christian writer of the first century.

Paul of Tarsus

Pope Benedict XVI
CTS ISBN 978-1-86082-577-6 €11.50

Pope Benedcit XVI turns his attention as a theologian and scripture scholar to one of the most importAnt figures in the history of the Church. Reflecting on St Paul's life and times, his indefigable missionary activity and the most important events of his life, the Holy Father then goes on to explore the most important themes and theologies of St Paul's writings including the incarnation, the cross, works, faith, and the sacraments.

Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian and religious genius, he laid down in his epistles the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. In this highly original introduction to Paul’s life and thought, E P Sanders, whose research on Paul has substantially influenced recent scholarship, pays equal attention to Paul’s fundamental convictions and the sometimes convoluted ways in which they were worked out.

Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters – Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon
ISBN 978-0-2810-5303-2

Corinthians
ISBN 978-0-7152-0788-8 €13.83

Here Jerome Murphy-O’Connor presents a completely new, and much more vivid and dramatic account of the life of Paul than has ever previously been attempted. From his childhood in Tarsus and his years as a student in Jerusalem to the successes and failures of his ministry, this biography has no peer in terms of its detailed reconstructions of Paul’s movements and motives.

St Paul's Corinth
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Liturgical Press, 2002 ISBN 978 0 8146 5303 6 €19.99

Corinth is explored both through literary and archaeological means. The evidence of twenty-one Greek and Latin authors is arranged and presented chronologically from the first century B.C.E to the second century C.E. This third revised and expanded edition includes new textural and archaeological material based on continuing research on Corinth.

St Paul's Ephesus
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Liturgical Press, 2008 ISBN 978 0 8146 5259 6 €25.99

The author combs the works of twenty-six ancient authors for information about ancient Ephesus, from its beginnings to the end of the biblical era. Readers can now picture for themselves this second of two major centres of Paul's missionary work, with its hoses, shops and monuments, and above all the world-renowned temple of Artemis.

In the Steps of Saint Paul
Peter Walker
Lion , 2008 ISBN 978 0 7459 5236 9 €28.60

A user-friendly, informative guide suitable for the traveller and non-traveller alike. Each chapter focuses on a particular site and includes: an opening section tellings Paul's story within that location; a list of key dates giving readers an overview of significant events associated with that place; and a final section exploring the location as a visitor might encounter it today.

In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L Reed
SPCK, 2005, ISBN 978 02810 5727 6 €28.56

Two top biblical experts present a fascinating 'you are there' vision of Paul as the embodiment of Jesus and the champion of his mission.
Using new historical analysis and the latest archaeological discoveries, one of the most eminent historical Jesus scholars and an expert in biblical archaeology spell out the top ten recent discoveries about the Apostle Paul, answering vital questions about this towering historic figure.
Did Paul invent Christianity? Did he reject Judaism and require that all Christians do so? Did he view women as inferior to men and as second-class citizens? Did he accept the institution of slavery?

In this book, N T Wright, Bishop of Durham, turns his attention and considerable enthusiasm to the writings of Paul of Tarsus, whom he considers to be the intellectual equal of Plato, Aristotle or Seneca. He captures and reveals illuminating details from Paul’s unique picture to emerge of an integrated philosophy – an original, Christian theology.

“Koester’s monumental volume of essays spans a whole generation of his
work on the Pauline letter corpus, the interpretation of Pauline theology, the locations where Paul worked, and the archaeology of these sites, which he has year after year himself examined on site. It is a must for anyone working on Paul and his churches.”
James M Robinson (Claremont Graduate University Emeritus and Institute for Antiquity and Christianity)

This is a lively and lucid attempt to portray the man behind the controversy and the drama. As the author says: ‘Two billion people today are followers of Jesus, and every one of them sees him through a lens crafted by Paul. A person of that influence is worth getting to know.’

In this book Tom Wright attempts to clear a path through to the St Paul of history, a path, he says, which has been obscured by much of modern theology. Bishop Wright seeks to study Paul in his own terms and to come to grips with what he really said. The book looks at key questions such as:
• What does Paul mean by ‘the gospel’?
• What did he think about Jesus?
• How did he challenge paganism?
• What was his message for Israel?
• What did he mean by ‘justification’?
• Was Paul really the founder of Christianity?

Extracting his information from a variety of sources – pagan, Jewish and Christian – Murphy-O’Connor imaginatively interweaves geographical, cultural and historical elements into configurations that reveal important parallel trajectories in the lives of Jesus and Paul. He begins by discussing the births, early years and family settings of Jesus and Paul. He continues with an examination of their education, refugee status, social class,
economic position, political circumstances, cultural influences and conversion experiences. Finally, he explores details surrounding their deaths.

In this book Fitzmyer recasts the text of Romans into the form of meditations for devotional reflection in spiritual retreats, Bible studies, church classrooms, small groups and other prayerful gatherings. Styled after the famous Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola, the book includes twenty-four meditations that can be divided in a variety of ways and fit to a range of reading schedules. Accompanying each meditation are questions to encourage reflection on the passage of Romans being considered and also a Psalm that echoes the Pauline passage.

This is a comprehensive examination of Paul’s understanding of who Christ was and is. In this book, Gordon Fee examines all he letters of the Pauline corpus in order to discover the Christology of each one. In Part I he works through the corpus, providing meticulous exegesis and grouping the texts under the appropriate themes relevant within each letter. In Part II he carefully synthesizes his exegetical work into a comprehensive exploration of the Christology of Paul.

This offers an incisive new look at the Jewish context for our understanding of Paul’s teaching. Scholars on all sides of the ongoing debate will benefit by interacting with the texts presented and the provocative arguments the author draws from them.

‘Many people who think they understand Paul actually misunderstand him. Professor Capes, Reeves and Richards have given the beginning student of Paul a much-needed, readable and insightful entreé into the apostle’s social world, ministry, letters, theology and legacy. The Paul they help us rediscover speaks the gospel of Christ crucified and raised not only to the first century, but also to the twenty-first.’
Michael J Gorman, (Dean, The Ecumenical Institute of Theology and Professor of Sacred Scripture, St Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore, Maryland)

“Gaventa here patiently teases out the significance of Paul’s maternal metaphors and links them skillfully to the apocalyptic structures of Paul’s thought. This is a quietly passionate and timely insistence that apostle, gospel, church and Israel derive their significance in Paul’s theology from the larger purpose of God to reclaim the cosmos from the power of Sin and Death. Gaventa’s reading of Paul is both sensitive and deeply committed.” John Barclay (Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham University)

This book gathers together several important essays on Paul’s mission and teaching by one of the foremost Pauline scholars of our day. These landmark studies explore in detail such major issues as Paul’s Jewishness, his characteristic language, and his relationship to Acts.

Though the apostle Paul wrote letters to many of the churches he founded, none of his extant letters reveal more about him, his missionary activity and the community of faith he sought to pastor than 1 Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians, Paul tried to influence – even control – the church in the context of a city that had lasting memories of Greek democracy but the present realities of a Roman proconsul. This volume highlights Paul as apostle, missionary and pastor against the backdrop of the Greco-Roman culture, economics and politics.

What are the origin and meaning of the words “greed is idolatry” found in Ephesians 5:5 and Colossians 3:5? In what sense are the greedy guilty of idolatry? Many different answers have been given to this question throughout the history of interpretation. In fact, a consensus exists on only one score – that the expression serves to vilify greed.
Brian Rosner ably takes on the challenge of interpretation by tackling the phrase as a metaphor, structuring his argument around an intriguing comparison to mountain climbing. From this vantage point, he offers a thorough history of interpretation of the phrase, including a study of the origin of the concept of idolatrous greed in biblical and Jewish sources. Rosner concludes that the comparison of greed with idolatry teaches that to desire to acquire and keep for oneself more money and material things is an attack on God’s exclusive right to human love, trust and obedience.

In this classic work, Wayne A Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity – the letters of Paul – to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians. In a new introduction, he traces the evolution of the field of New Testament scholarship over the past twenty years, including new developments in such fields as archaeology and social history.

The six essays in this book consider the relationship between Jesus and Paul from diverse angles, bringing fresh insights into an area of study that has long lain dormant. Written by established scholars, Jesus and Paul Reconnected explores historical congruity between Christ and his apostle and examines potential connections in their thought, relationships and practices. Topics considered include the grace of God, treatment of the poor, law and gospel, Peter’s connection between the two, the Last Supper, and the death of Christ.
Contributors: John M G Barclay, Markus Bockmuehl, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Bruce W Longenecker, Francis Watson & Stephen Werterholm.