By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-08-28T07:17:46-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Tags: Book of Acts, Gospels, New Testament, Paul|
What were the letters supposed to accomplish? The letters permit an expansion of doctrine or teachings and moral exhortation from an authoritative figure of the faith rendered seemingly in his own voice. That is a one sentence synopsis. An interview with Dr. Nina Livesey
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-08-28T07:00:56-04:00September 4th, 2024|Tags: Crucifixion, Paul, Resurrection, Violence|
We need to think about resurrection and ascension completely differently. The idea of resurrection needs to be understood in the context of justice and redemption.An interview with Dr. J. Dominic Crossan
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-05-28T18:29:26-04:00May 29th, 2024|Tags: Eternal Life, Genesis, Letter of Peter to Philip, Paul, Revelation of Adam|
The death of Jesus sparked a great deal of interest in the subject of immortality in the first few centuries after his life. Due to his sinlessness, he could not be held within the bonds of mortality.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-02-13T04:59:20-05:00February 13th, 2024|Tags: Apostles, Book of Acts, New Testament, Paul|
Paul's letters may well give us more clues regarding the historical facts about Paul and his mission than the book of Acts. The biblical Acts of the Apostles has a different agenda from Paul himself. Presenter: Dr. Perry Kea with host Dr. Shirley Paulson
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-01-23T23:54:35-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Tags: Book of Acts, Christianity, Paul, Religion, Revelation, The Jewishness of Jesus|
People who know anything about Paul from the Bible generally know the story of Paul's conversion. But is that really what happened? Did he become a Christian or remain a Jew? Presenter: Dr. B. Brandon Scott with host Dr. Shirley Paulson
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2024-01-08T06:48:03-05:00January 10th, 2024|Tags: Christ, Gospel of Mark, Judaism, Paul, The Jewishness of Jesus|
Was Jesus the expected Jewish Messiah? The primary problem is that Jesus was crucified, executed by the Romans. Nothing in Jewish expectation about the Messiah expected the Messiah to lose, much less be executed by Israel’s enemies.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2024-01-06T18:39:00-05:00November 29th, 2023|Tags: Christianity, Gospel of Matthew, Judaism, Paul, The Jewishness of Jesus|
Christians have had a difficult time acknowledging that Jesus was a Jew, despite the obvious fact his mother was a Jewish woman. Therefore, he was a Jew. So, what’s the problem?
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-11-01T07:05:02-04:00November 1st, 2023|Tags: 1 Timothy, Gender Issues, Paul, Sex, Women|
Along the way, Paul also makes quite a telling statement about his and probably these early communities’ views of conjugal rights – that they are mutual! Marriage partners have authority over one another’s bodies. An Interview with Dr. Susan (Elli) Elliott.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-03-30T17:32:25-04:00April 5th, 2023|Tags: Crucifixion, Martyr, Paul, Resurrection, Sacrifice|
In fact, God has made him alive. . . the experience of Jesus and the power of the experience of Jesus is the same before his death and after. An interview with Dr. B. Brandon Scott
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-05-09T09:18:25-04:00February 1st, 2023|Tags: Bible, Book of Acts, Early Church, Paul, Peter|
One of the issues that’s really beginning to affect these communities and the second and third generation is the question of authority. … How do we know that our group is doing things right? An interview with Dr. Perry Kea.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-12-10T07:50:28-05:00December 14th, 2022|Tags: Christ, Christmas, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Paul|
If we only celebrated the birth of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, we’d have no angel speaking to Mary …. If we only celebrated the birth of Jesus from the Gospel of Luke, we’d have no flight to Egypt.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2022-03-31T18:56:17-04:00April 13th, 2022|Tags: Christ, Greco-Roman, Paul, Psalms, Translation Issues|
The shifts from ‘Messiah,’ to christos, to christus, to ‘Christ’ were momentous. In the process, the root meaning of g-d’s anointed king was forfeited and with that several things were lost.
