Paul, the Apostle of Christ

A new translation with critical commentary of Baur’s nineteenth-century masterpiece in historical criticism and theological synthesis.


F.C. Baur’s monumental study Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ (1845) is one of the greatest works of all time on the Apostle to the Gentiles. Laying the basis for modern Pauline scholarship, its three sections in turn thoroughly deconstruct the account of Paul found in Acts, examine the authentic, deuteron-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles, and draw the various ...