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St Paul

In Our Time

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The Creation of New Communities

Paul is the first Christian writer and thus closest to the life of Jesus. But he actually says very, very little about the power of all of Jesus or the miracles of Jesus. Everything focuses for him on two events on the death of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus. He has this extraordinary notion that in these events is as it were the death of the old world and the beginning of a new creation. There's this huge sort of sense of the cosmos having turned on its hinge at this point and a new world coming into being.

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