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Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul & His Letters (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive and widely used text by Michael Gorman presents a theologically focused, historically grounded interpretation of the apostle Paul and raises significant questions for engaging Paul today. After providing substantial background information on Paul’s world, career, letters, gospel, spirituality, and theology, Gorman covers in full detail each of the thirteen Pauline epistles....

this is to say that if we define Pauline authorship to include greater, rather than lesser, input from minds and hands other than Paul’s, then some of the perceived differences between the so-called authentic and inauthentic letters may be explained. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Using several criteria, scholars generally divide the Pauline letters into two categories, either ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ or, more objectively, ‘disputed’ or ‘contested’ (as to authorship) and ‘undisputed’
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