Paul: An Apostle's Journey

by Douglas A. Campbell

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2018

Overview

Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career.

Enter with Campbell into Paul’s world, relive the story of Paul’s action-packed ministry, and follow the development of Paul’s thought throughout both his physical and his spiritual travels.

Ideal for students, individual readers, and study groups, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey dramatically recounts the life of one of early Christianity’s most fascinating figures—and offers powerful insight into his mind and his influential message.

Key Features

• An accessible book on Paul for all levels of study
• Authored by a leading Pauline scholar
• Examines Paul's life chronologically in his travels

Contents

• Part 1
  • Conversion
  • Breakthrough
  • Networking
  • Alongsiders
  • Life Together
  • Insights in the Dark
  • Culture Wars at Corinth
  • Navigating Sex and Gender
  • The Christian City
• Part 2
  • Enemies
  • Covenant versus Contract
  • Israel Past and Present
  • God Wins
  • The Last Journey

Praise for the Print Edition

Quite simply outstanding, accessible to those with little theological education yet packed with enough depth to keep an experienced reader engrossed. . . . Campbell’s exegetical skill and theological erudition are here joined by a remarkable pastoral and even prophetic depth, which confronts us with the phenomenon of Paul in a unique way.

— Chris Tilling, St. Mellitus College

A lively, readable, and profoundly insightful study of Paul and his life by one of his greatest contemporary interpreters.

—Alan J. Torrance, University of St. Andrews

Crazy! A racy, page-turning blockbuster on the apostle Paul! Simultaneously courageous and outrageous, tendentious and tender, pugnacious and pastoral, Campbell pours forth his vision of Paul with imagination, verve, and passion; with stories ancient and modern; with immense learning on every page, but never a boring word. The best book on Paul since Acts.

—Douglas Harink, The King’s University, Edmonton

Product Details

• Title: Paul: An Apostle’s Journey
• Author: Douglas A. Campbell
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2018
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Pages: 219
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Paul, the Apostle, Saint
• ISBNs: 9780802873477, 0802873472
• Resource ID: LLS:PLNPSTLSJRNY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:15:00Z

About Douglas A. Campbell

Dr. Campbell’s main research interests comprise the life and thought (i.e. theology and its development) of Paul with particular reference to soteriological models rooted in apocalyptic as against justification or salvation-history. However, he is interested in contributions to Pauline analysis from modern literary theory, from modern theology, from epistolary theory, ancient rhetoric, ancient comparative religion, modern linguistics and semantic theory, and from sociology. His recent publications include The Rhetoric of Righteousness in Romans 3:21-26, and he edited The Call to Serve: Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Ministry in Honour of Bishop Penny Jamieson.