“and I’m aware that Paul is a problematic figure in theological history, to put it mildly”
Huh? Who, other than atheists and other heathens, have a problem with St. Paul?
Its like saying that Bill Gates is a problematic figure in Microsoft history.
Jews?
“Huh? Who, other than atheists and other heathens, have a problem with St. Paul?”
Protestants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Perspective_on_Paul
>> Who, other than atheists and other heathens, have a problem with St. Paul?
Homosexuals and homosexual symps. (Modern “culture” being what it is, that includes essentially all of the American and European left. Certainly the entire DemocRat party.)
They’d just as soon that certain whole chapters of Paul’s writings be torn out of their bibles. Romans 1, among others.