British Quote by Cecil Roth

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against…

— Reza Aslan

“Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the…

— Reza Aslan

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and…

— Simon Schama

“The first-hand information Paul needed about Jesus either as a man, or as the promised Jewish Messiah was to be found in Arabia rather…

— Kamal Salibi

“Why did Paul, having experienced his revelations of Jesus as the Son of God, decide to go at once to Arabia instead of Jerusalem?”

— Kamal Salibi

“Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

“The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul”

— Bart D. Ehrman

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

— Sun Myung Moon

“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

“while the gospel offended each culture in somewhat different ways, it also drew people to see Christ and his work in different ways. Greeks…

— Timothy Keller

“We know of the tensions between the first Church in Jerusalem and Churches in which Paul of Tarsus became the prominent teacher .. The…

— Diarmaid MacCulloch