Epochs in the Life of Paul: A Study of Development in Paul's Career

by Archibald Thomas Robertson

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1909

Overview

The widespread success of Epochs in the Life of Jesus prompted Robertson to offer a treatment of Paul’s life in the same manner. In this companion volume, Robertson does not offer critical or textual discussions. Instead, he gives an honest and constructive account of Paul and his work in Acts and the epistles. Beginning with Paul’s life before his conversion, and chronicling his missionary efforts, arrest, and imprisonment, Robertson approaches Paul using all available resources: his own environment, his intellectual and spiritual reflections, his relation to Jesus, and his literary remains all illustrate the development of his theology and the journeys of his life.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Paul’s Death.—The details are all wanting. Tradition supplies only a few, which may be true or not. The story is that Paul was beheaded on the Ostian Road. It was customary for criminals of prominence to be executed several miles out of the city so as to avoid the crowds.” (Page 316)

“What Paul means beyond controversy is that he had a personal interview with Jesus of Nazareth after his death. In that interview he heard the voice of Jesus and understood his words in a conversation of some length (Acts 9:4–6; 22:7–10; 26:14–18). It was not a mere voice that Saul heard. He claims that he saw Jesus (1 Cor. 9:1).” (Page 42)

“Paul knew how to think and had such passion of soul and keenness of intellect that he still challenges the respect of the greatest minds of the modern world.” (Page 2)

“Augustine and Calvin, Pelagius and Arminius, Origen and Clement, all drink from the fountain of Paul’s theology.” (Page 3)

“If Christ could save a sinner like Saul, he felt that no one else need despair.” (Page 26)

Product Details

• Title: Epochs in the Life of Paul: A Study of Development in Paul's Career
• Author: A. T. Robertson
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Publication Date: 1909
• Pages: 336

About Archibald Thomas Robertson

A. T. Robertson (1863–1934) was a renowned scholar and a terrific preacher. He was educated at Wake Forest University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1892, Robertson was appointed professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he taught until 1934.

Robertson was a founding member of the Baptist World Congress, now known as the Baptist World Alliance. Throughout his incredible life, Archibald Thomas Robertson wrote 41 books ranging from grammars to simple character studies.

His books are still used today and his publications available in Logos include Practical and Social Aspects of Christianity: The Wisdom of James, Studies in Mark's Gospel, The Divinity of Christ in the Gospel of John, and A Harmony of the Gospels. Also available from Logos is the A. T. Robertson Collection (15 vols.), which includes a number of Robertson’s grammars, commentaries, lectures, and sermons.