What Saint Paul Really Said

A. N. Wilson and other critics have recently claimed that it was Paul, not Jesus, who founded Christianity. But how does this thesis, which in various forms has been debated for over a century, stand up? In What Saint Paul Really Said, N. T. Wright—a world authority on the life and letters of Paul—leads readers through the current scholarly discussion of Paul and gives a devastating critique of views like Wilson's, showing that they fail to take account of all the evidence. Paul was not the "founder of Christianity" but, rather, the faithful witness and herald of Jesus Christ.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1. Puzzling Over Paul
2. Saul the Persecutor, Paul the Convert
3. Herald of the King
4. Paul and Jesus
5. Good News for the Pagans
6. Good News for Israel
7. Justification and the Church
8. God's Renewed Humanity
9. Paul's Gospel Then and Now
10. Paul, Jesus and the Christian Origins

Annotated Bibliography