- Published: 27 March 1998
- ISBN: 9780712666633
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $47.99
Paul
The Mind of the Apostle
- Published: 27 March 1998
- ISBN: 9780712666633
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $47.99
Characteristically clever and urbane, informed and entertaining.
Daily Telegraph
Wilson has read widely and exhaustively, and it is particularly strong on the political and historical background. He writes vividly and well and brings his novelist's gift to bear what is, in part, a detective story.
Sunday Times
Brilliant...his knowledge of the first century AD is prodigous.
Spectator Books of the Year
A.N. Wilson - novelist, ex-Anglican and unrepentant agent provocateur - spares no pious blushes in his new study of Saint Paul. His theory is stated in confessional style but elegantly and accessibly put...This book is designed to raise eyebrows, but its resounding success at the translating high-minded and often opaquely phrased ecclesiastical debate into a popular format should be applauded.
Independent
This is a splendidly readable book, and one which will find many readers.
Daily Telegraph
A.N. Wilson's admirable and compelling biography should encourage many to revise their view of the Apostle, if only because, despite its sound scholarship, it is destined to reach a wider audience than most learned studies. Wilson shows clearly that without Paul, Christianity would have been impossible and, indeed, that the gospel portrait of Jesus has been sp profoundly influenced by Paul's theology that it is impossible for us to separate the two...One of the greatest strengths of Wilson's book is that it reveals the extent of our ignorance about the origins of Christianity.
Karen Armstrong, The Times