The First Christian

by A. Powell Davies

Apostle to the Gentiles
This is the story of St. Paul - the audacious thinker who came to persecute the followers of Jesus and stayed to lead them...the misunderstood genius who carried the gospel of Christ to wealthy and poor; Jew, pagan and Gentile.

240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1957

Reviews

[Colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good details. Crazy liberal scholar! Thankfully, I'm reading N.T. Wright simultaneously. Very disjointed/unorganized.

[Riatmi Ami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bacaan ter-gong di tahun 2025 ini. Tinjauan akademis ttg Paul (Saul) dan perannya dalam membentuk agama Kristen menjadi seperti hari ini. Tipe buku yang bisa dibaca oleh semua agama karena ini tinjauan sejarah, bukan buku untuk memperkuat iman Kristen.

Kapan- kapan mungkin akan tulis hal hal menarik yang aku dapat dari buku ini.

[Kenneth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this one sometime in my high school years and was fascinated by the treatment of the history of St. Paul and the early church. The author was a Unitarian minister, who died in 1957, and who had kept up with the current thinking of Liberal Protestant biblical scholarship and was busy absorbing the impact of the discovery a few years before, of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Much of what he wrote is kind of dated by now, but it certainly expanded my thinking back in the day. For current scholarship on St. Paul, I would recommend the writings of N.T. Wright.