The Apostle to the Gentiles
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It should be mentioned that Scott Hahn was a Reformed theolog (Gordon-Conwell), before he went to Rome. Though he surely does not still attach himself to GOD’s sovereign grace, as did Calvin! WE can miss the doctrine and even person of St. Paul the Apostle, if we miss God’s sovereign purpose and grace, as we see in the choice and life of Saul/Paul! But, we certainly must see Paul as a “New Man” also ‘In Christ’! (2 Cor. 5: 17, etc.)
“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.” (1 Tim. 1: 15-16, ESV)…”foremost”! Surely Paul is an example of the effect of grace and God’s glory, in the sovereign grace & election. It is also most surely GOD’s “transformation” as ‘In Christ’, and the result of the Gospel and the message (kerygma) of Christ! “It pleased God,” says Paul, “by the foolishness of the Preaching to save them that believe,” (1 Cor. 1: 21)
“The earliest Christian writer whose works are extant is the apostle Paul, and from him our investigation should begin. There are, however, difficulties in attempting to discover the apostolic Preaching in the epistles of Paul. In the first place, the epistles are, of course, not of the nature of “kerygma.” They are all addressed to readers already Christian, and they deal with theological and ethical problems arising out of the attempt to follow the Christian way of life and thought in a non-Christian world. They have the character of what the early Church called “teaching” or “exhortation.” They presuppose the Preaching. They expound and defend the implications of the Gospel rather than proclain it.” (The Apostolic Preaching and its Developments, by C.H. Dodd)
And to my mind, as most certainly Augustine, this includes the great doctrine of Divine Election!
Btw, there is a nice older book that I have and like by a Roman Catholic layman… Saint Paul, Envoy Of Grace, by Robert Sencourt, (London, 1948). Yes, I have the first edition!
(24 chapters, with Notes and Appendices, See chapter 8, Divine Force and Energy). I would hope that some Catholic publisher has it in re-print?
As for recent books on St. Paul, I’d rather try Taylor Marshall’s “The Catholic Perspective on Paul”.
The Catholic Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Origins of Catholic Christianity
http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2013/01/was-saint-paul-catholic-or-are.html
There are many good modern or todays books on St. Paul. Certainly several books by Gordon Fee on Paul and Pauline Theology are very good, though I myself cannot follow Fee everywhere. And then too NT Wright has his new big work on Paul coming out, but there again, I most certainly cannot follow Wright on his basic so-called New Perspective! Myself, I like the Lutheran Udo Schnelle’s book: Apostle Paul, His Life and Theology, (Baker, 2005). Of course there are the classics too, Herman Ridderbos’s: Paul, An Outline of His Theology, as Richard Longenecker’s, Paul Apostle of Liberty. The list could become large! Perhaps my favorite rather smaller book (190 pages with Index), is Anthony Thiselton’s book: The Living Paul, An Introduction to the Apostles Life and Thought, (IVP, 2009).
This whole place of the Pauline Theology is simply the red meat for Protestant Evangelicalism!