Walking Through John G. Gager's "Reinventing Paul"

2006-08-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

For sometime I've desired to write a response to John G. Gager's Reinventing Paul.

I first ran up against Gager's work when a theologically liberal Presbyterian tried to use it in order to show how Jews don't need to believe in Jesus.

That is the poing of Gager's book which I want to show wanting. There are so many issues and assumptions that Gager makes that I found it necessary to take copious amounts of notes.

As I got distracted my various and sundry things, I decided it was necessary to start reading the book again from the beginning of the book.

And recently I realized: why don't I take notes in a blog devoted to my systematic reading of the book?

I want to write an article summing up my critique, but, by its very nature, such an article can't go into great detail. A blog can.

Well, I hope people find this interesting. I don't who would, unless you are really interested in Gager's work for whatever reason. Maybe you are like me in wanting to respond to it.

There are a lot of things to unravel in Gager's book. If he repeats things I want to comment on, I'm not sure how often I should be making the same critiques.

I hope this goes well.

Examining 'Reinventing Paul' by John G. Gager

Walking Through John G. Gager's "Reinventing Paul"