Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if you take…

— N.T. Wright

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

— Walter Kaufmann

“understanding of Christ, which Paul terms the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery, which “the natural man receiveth not,” the doctrine of the…

— The Church Fathers

“The union between Paul’s sufferings and Christ’s sufferings results in the manifestation of Christ’s life in the person of Paul.”

— Taylor R. Marshall

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions…

— Pope Francis

Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in…

— N. T. Wright

“With Bible believers, he quotes Scripture and John the Baptist; with pagans he argues from general revelation and the greatness of creation. The biblical…

— Timothy Keller

Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality,…

— Anonymous

“Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and…

— Michael J. Gorman

“On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the mind of…

— Bruce L. Shelley

“Paul's aspiration was to know Jesus Christ in a way that was experiential.”

— Henry Hon

“Whatever precise reconstruction we offer of the situation Paul envisages in Rome, the point is clear: at the heart of his work is the…

— N.T. Wright