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Also by Karen Armstrong:

St. Paul, October 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, January 2011
Hardcover
The Case for God, October 2009
Hardcover
The Bible, November 2007
Hardcover
The Great Transformation, March 2006
Hardcover

ST. PAUL
By: Karen Armstrong

The Apostle We Love to Hate

Amazon Publishing
October 2015
On Sale: September 22, 2015
ISBN: 0544617398
EAN: 9780544617391
Kindle: B00PJ9M884
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Religion

St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the world than any other figure in history.

It was Paul who established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century, Paul who transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization, and Paul who advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. While we know little about some aspects of the life of St. Paul—his upbringing, the details of his death—his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that followed forever changed the course of history.