HISTOIRE DE PAUL DE TARSE
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Il existe un nombre impressionnant d'ouvrages sur l'apôtre Paul. Et pourtant Paul demeure une figure mystérieuse. Plus même, les débats autour de ses écrits théologiques ont détourné l'attention de sa personnalité. Et si celle-ci était une clé d'accès à ses idées ? C'est pourquoi Jerome Murphy-O'Connor emmène son lecteur à la rencontre de l'homme Paul, qui n'avait pas seulement des idées sur Dieu, mais aussi des sentiments, et ressentait comme nous la joie, la tristesse, la crainte et aussi la colère ! Pourtant ce livre n'est pas un « roman historique » : l'imagination est sans cesse contrôlée par une connaissance approfondie des textes et de la réalité historique et culturelle. L'auteur ne se borne pas à expliciter ce que raconte Luc - témoin partial et partiel -, il suit le détail des lettres. replacées dans leur contexte. Seul pouvait faire cela un historien, excellent connaisseur de la littérature et des conditions de l'époque, qu'il s'agisse du cursus d'un jeune étudiant pharisien, des coutumes sociales des Romains ou des conditions de voyage en ce temps-là. C'est donc une « histoire vraie » qui nous est contée, mais aussi une belle histoire, comme l'« histoire » que racontait Paul lui-même avec tant de passion : celle d'un homme envoyé par Dieu pour sauver tous les hommes.
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The number of books about the apostle Paul is impressive. Yet Paul remains a mysterious figure. Moreover, the debates about his theological writing have distracted attention from his personality. But what if his personality were a key to understanding his work? Jerome Murphy-O'Connor takes the reader to meet Paul, who didn't only have ideas about God, he also had feelings: like us, he experienced joy, sadness, fear and anger! Yet this book is not a historical novel': the imagination is constantly kept in check by the author's deep knowledge of the texts and historical and cultural reality. Not only does he explain what Luke said - the disciple was a biased witness with only partial knowledge -, but he studies the letters in detail, resituating them in their context. Only a historian with an excellent knowledge of literature and the life of those times could have described the career of a young Pharisee, student of the Romans' social customs and the travelling conditions of those times. So what we are reading is a real-life story', but also a fine adventure, like the story' Paul himself told with so much passion: that of a man sent by God to save all men.
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The number of books about the apostle Paul is impressive. Yet Paul remains a mysterious figure. Moreover, the debates about his theological writing have distracted attention from his personality. But what if his personality were a key to understanding his work? Jerome Murphy-O'Connor takes the reader to meet Paul, who didn't only have ideas about God, he also had feelings: like us, he experienced joy, sadness, fear and anger! Yet this book is not a historical novel': the imagination is constantly kept in check by the author's deep knowledge of the texts and historical and cultural reality. Not only does he explain what Luke said - the disciple was a biased witness with only partial knowledge -, but he studies the letters in detail, resituating them in their context. Only a historian with an excellent knowledge of literature and the life of those times could have described the career of a young Pharisee, student of the Romans' social customs and the travelling conditions of those times. So what we are reading is a real-life story', but also a fine adventure, like the story' Paul himself told with so much passion: that of a man sent by God to save all men.