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From the author: George Martin I welcome feedback, editorial suggestions, and questions. I’m going public with my chapters as they evolve in the proper order. I’m am also seeking a major publisher who will publish this book. Let me know what you think using the comments part of this website. (Please note the working title for this book had been “Meeting the St. Paul You Never Thought You’d Meet.” That  title has changed to reflect the basic strategy behind my…

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Chapter 4  Paul the Storyteller “The art of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another person’s story.” [Solnit, The Faraway Nearby, #6] Against a background of a seminary library shelves filled with titles reflecting what Paul thought and believed, I want to emphasize a topic rarely considered. Paul was primarily a storyteller. There are multi-layered narratives to be discovered in Paul letters. We have some detective work to do. We will discover many clues to Paul…

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 Chapter 5: Paul Lost in the Crowd (Editorial suggestions are welcome! ghm)   “Exploring and narrating the Pauline story can be a means to articulate a counter narrative, a challenge to this (and other) dominant narratives, a means to envisage human communities in which a different story constructs a different sense of identity and undergirds different patterns of community practice.”[1]   “Let him wander through the city, an exile from the bridge and the hill Let him be the least…

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What follows is the annotated table of contents for my new book that I hope to complete by December of this year. I welcome comments and interest from others. In early 2017 I expect I’ll be able to be offering seminars and conferences on this topic. Please use the comment section of this web page and I’ll be happy to respond to your questions or reflections. Annotated Table of Contents “Meeting the St. Paul You Never Thought You’d Meet” by…

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