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by Garry Wills
A stellar interpretation of Paul’s writing, examining his tremendous influence on the first explosion of Christian belief and chronicling the controversy surrounding Paul through the centuries. Wills’s many readers and those interested in the Christian tradition will warmly welcome this penetrating discussion of perhaps the most fascinating church father.
"Provocative yet helpful, this book is sure to create a buzz." - PW.
"To help clarify his exculpation, Wills avoids certain words, especially church, Christians, priests, and sacraments, because nothing corresponding to their modern meanings was used by early followers of Jesus. The affect of that decision is revelatory and makes this explanation of Paul dazzlingly enlightening." - Booklist.
"Wills hones in on what is at stake in complex arguments, makes the issues clear, and presents a compelling case for reading Paul with historical attentiveness." - Library Journal.
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Garry Wills was born in 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from
Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1951 and received his PhD
in classics from Yale in 1961. In 1995, he received a L.H.D. from Bates College.
He received an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.
A historian and author of more than 20 books including What Jesus Meant,
he is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The
Words That Remade America, which describes the background and effect of
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. In 1998, he won the
National Medal for the Humanities. He has also won the National Book Critics
Circle Award.
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