In Search of Paul Quotes

“Christians must have understood, then, that to proclaim Jesus as Son of God was deliberately denying Caesar his highest title and that to announce Jesus as Lord and Savior was calculated treason.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“with Paul, with dusty, tired, much-traveled Paul, came Rome’s most dangerous opponent—not legions but ideas, not an alternative force but an alternative faith.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“he converted not from Judaism to Christianity, of course, but from violent opponent and persecutor of pagan inclusion to nonviolent proponent and persuader of pagan inclusion. That which he persecuted for God was exactly that to which he was called by God.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“Those are first warnings about distinguishing the Pauline Paul from the Lukan Paul by separation and discrimination”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“does a search for Paul bring Theoklia, women, and equality back steadily and inevitably into the light”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“He only said what Christianity has never been able to follow, that within it all are equal and this is to be its witness and challenge to the world outside.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“All were absolutely equal with each other. But in 1 Timothy, a letter attributed to Paul by later Christians though not actually written by him, women are told to be silent in church and pregnant at home (2:8–15). And a later follower of Paul inserted in 1 Corinthians that it is shameful for women to speak in church, but correct to ask their husbands for explanations at home”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“An earlier image in which Theoklia and Paul were equally authoritative apostolic figures has been replaced by one in which the male is apostolic and authoritative and the female is blinded and silenced.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul

“In Paul’s lifetime Roman emperors were deemed divine, and, first and foremost, Augustus was called Son of God, God, and God of God. He was Lord, Redeemer,”
― John Dominic Crossan, In Search of Paul