In my previous post, I promised to write more about the innovative nature of Paul's letters. No one denies that Paul lived in the Greco-Roman world as a devout Jew. But it is one thing to know that fact but is another to claim that Paul was nothing but an ordinary Jew living in the … Continue reading Paul the Innovative Letter-Writer
T. S. Eliot and the Apostle Paul
The 1948 Nobel Literature Prize laureate T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) wrote the seminal essay titled "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1917). This short paper was a fire he shot that was to be eventually heard around the world within less than a century. As the title of the article shows, Eliot contrasts tradition and the … Continue reading T. S. Eliot and the Apostle Paul