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  2. Paul the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus, a c. 1889 portrait by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior. Paul's conversion to the movement of followers of Jesus can be dated to 31–36 AD [77] [78] [79] by his reference to it in one of his letters. In Galatians 1:16, Paul writes that God "was pleased to reveal his son to me."

  3. Epistle to the Romans - Wikipedia

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    Paul begins with a summary of Hellenistic Jewish apologist discourse. [57] His summary begins by suggesting that humans have taken up ungodliness and wickedness for which there already is wrath from God. [58] People have taken God's invisible image and made him into an idol. Paul draws heavily here from the Wisdom of Solomon. [59]

  4. Conversion of Paul the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and the "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...

  5. Conversion on the Way to Damascus - Wikipedia

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    Another leading scholar at the time, Walter Friedlaender in his groundbreaking monography, Caravaggio Studies (1955) used the analysis of the Conversion of Saint Paul as an introduction to the art of Caravaggio. He emphasized that both paintings of the Cerasi Chapel "were, in spite of their radically new and unaccustomed conceptions, perfectly ...

  6. Pastoral epistles - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles ...

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  8. Paul the Apostle and Jewish Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Paul's influence on Christian thinking is considered to be more significant than that of any other New Testament author. [3] According to Krister Stendahl, the main concern of Paul's writings on Jesus' role, and salvation by faith, is not the individual conscience of human sinners, and their doubts about being chosen by God or not, but the problem of the inclusion of Gentile (Greek) Torah ...

  9. New Perspective on Paul - Wikipedia

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    Valentin de Boulogne: Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, c. 1618–1620. The "New Perspective on Paul" is a movement within the field of biblical studies concerned with the understanding of the writings of the Apostle Paul. The "new perspective" was started with scholar E. P. Sanders' 1977 work Paul and Palestinian Judaism.