(+) St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate (2015 Armstrong), non-fiction

St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate (2015) is a non-fiction book by Karen Armstrong.

Abstract

A biography of Paul of Tarsus.

""A stirring account of the life of Paul, who brought Christianity to the Jews, by the most popular writer on religion in the English-speaking world, Karen Armstrong, author of The History of God, which has been translated into thirty languages"-- St. Paul established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century; transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization; and advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. Yet he had been a zealous Pharisee, and has long been considered a misogynist and a supporter of slavery. Armstrong discusses the little we know about aspects of the early life of St. Paul, shows how the life that followed forever changed the course of history."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.