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Historical Paul: Have They Missed The Real Story?

Albert Schweitzer, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, called “one of the greatest Christians of his time,” philosopher, physician, musician, clergyman, missionary, and theologian in his The Quest for the Historical Jesus and his Mysticism of Paul:

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A POLITE BRIBE: Sensationalized Hype or Expert Opinion?

For those who are speaking or writing about our film A Polite Bribe without having viewed it, and who are looking to dismiss the film by assigning “bad or radical motives” to its creator (me), I suggest you please take a moment and read some of the quotes below. Not every Pauline scholar agrees on the validity of my narrative featuring the collection and the conflict between Paul and James, but generally speaking, a consensus of NT scholars does.

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A Polite Bribe: Paul, In His Own Words

To navigate the waters of Pauline New Testament studies has been both an adventure and cautionary tale. There is an abundance of material beginning with unknown NT sources, traditions, methodologies, points of departure, and terms that have come to define them: Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical, New Paul Perspective, Paul and Empire, Post Colonial Studies, etc.

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A Polite Bribe: Paul, His Movement, and Hellenic Culture

As an independent scholar and film maker I have been fascinated with the potential to reframe the story of Paul’s mission to the Gentiles and his relationship with the earliest Jewish Christian communities—especially that of Jerusalem.

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Historical Paul: What Have Christians Said About Paul?

St Augustine of Hippo,Letter 40, to Jerome (397):
“If it be possible for men to say and believe that, after introducing his narrative with these words, ‘The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not’, the apostle (Paul) lied when he said of Peter and Barnabas, ‘I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel’,… [then] if they did walk uprightly, Paul wrote what was false; and if he wrote what was false here, when did he say what was true?”

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A Polite Bribe: An Apostle’s Bid to Save a World Religion

How does a sickly, poorly spoken, religious man become one of the most influential figures in Western history? An outsider without crown or sword who decided how we should make love and war and believe in God? If you asked Paul the Apostle (A.D. 5-62),

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