In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom

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• He opposed the mantras of Roman normalcy with a vision of peace through justice — faith in piety, war, victory, and peace challenged at its root.

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• You are forced constantly to swivel and look upward until your neck hurts. Your body gets the message even before your mind catches up.

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• Belief in divine sanction for Roman rule enabled Rome to govern successfully for such a long time among the conquered.

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calling

• Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before Gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel.

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faith-and-doubt

• How could a pure pagan understand what Paul was talking about? Sympathizers knew quite a bit about Jewish faith, scripture, and ritual requirements.

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• Since we know what happened, it is easy to think it was necessary, fated, providential, inevitable. But what if it never was?

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