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Saul the Pharisee, now Paul the Apostle, joined Barnabas to preach and proselytize in Antioch for a small sect of Jews who called themselves Nazarenes. When he died some 15 years later, he left behind him the firm foundations of a world religion. He shaped Christianity with his thought; Augustine...
Of Men & Angels. After his dramatic conversion, Paul spent about three years in Arabia, thinking through his new faith or preaching it. When he returned to Damascus, trouble was waiting for him. The Jewish community, looking on him as a traitor, had made arrangements with the Governor of the province...
On the first journey Barnabas and Paul left Antioch together to carry the Gospel to other cities of the Greek world. At Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that...
But Paul pointed to Jesus' consistent opposition to the tyranny of the Torah ("The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath"). Faith in Christ, plus baptism, rather than rites and observances, he maintained, is all that is necessary. This teaching greatly appealed to the Gentiles...
-"And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch," says the New Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable...