Imagine Paul

""Imagine owning one volume to which you could turn for the life and work, travels and letters, history and geography of Paul, along with timelines and maps which help it all come clear--all offered in the thoughtful voice of a pastoral scholar who has given much of his life to learning Paul and teaching Paul in and for the university and the church. Imagine that, and you will have imagined a bit of G. Roger Greene's Imagine Paul."" --Charles Eugene Poole, retired Baptist pastor ""A devoted Christian disciple and lifelong student of Paul invites readers on a pilgrimage through the landscape of Pauline letters to encounter Paul unshackled from millennia of interpretation. Meet the first-century Pharisaic Jewish apostle and evangelist to the Greco-Roman world who became a new man in Christ and proclaimed the gospel of God. Paul's resurrection faith as presented by the author yet calls for faithful response. Imagine Paul is good tonic for the modern soul!"" --Susan Hooks Meadors, associate pastor, Northside Baptist Church ""Developed through decades of extensive research and experience, Imagine Paul seeks to allow the apostle Paul to live again. G. Roger Greene invites the reader to imagine, or to reimagine, Paul and his message within Paul's own historical, cultural, and spiritual matrices as presented in the New Testament record. Scholar, student, and seeker alike will profit from Greene's informed, insightful, and innovative treatment."" --Edward L. Mahaffey, professor of Christian studies, Mississippi College ""Consciously tying himself to the mast of Paul's epistles, G. Roger Greene rigorously constructs an understanding of the apostle from what he said, rather than what was said about him--even in Acts. His original concept of Paul's 'epistolic' theology is worth the price of the book. I found myself alternately enlightened, encouraged, challenged, convicted, even irritated here and there, but most of all, stretched. Greene's gift is to move his readers beyond illumination to doxology and worship."" --Cary Stockett, senior pastor emeritus, Galloway United Methodist Church ""In Imagine Paul, G. Roger Greene has provided a comprehensive treatment of the apostle Paul's historical context, biography, letter writing method and purposes, and theology. Unique is Greene's well-reasoned argument that understanding Paul must go through every interpreter's imagination within the constraints of actual historical, geographical, lexical, and archaeological evidence. One foundational aspect of such evidence is that Paul's biography should start from his letters with Acts serving in a supportive role. Highly recommended!"" --Bennie R. Crockett Jr., professor of religion and philosophy, William Carey University