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Most studies of Paul concentrate solely on his theology. This book breaks new ground by focusing on the source and nature of Paul’s spirituality. Taking his cue from Paul’s express desire to “know nothing but Christ crucified,” Michael Gorman shows how Paul’s personal experience of God constantly intersects with the story of the cross, an event that both reveals the cruciform character of God and...

As we have already noted, all of these subsequent “visions and revelations of the Lord” confirmed the life-transforming Damascus-road encounter. In light of Paul’s letters, we may draw several major conclusions about the meaning of that first encounter with Jesus for Paul. First, the Damascus-road experience took Paul by surprise. It was an experience of unexpected, undeserved grace (1 Cor. 15:10). There is no evidence that he was experiencing any guilt
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