Listen to 1st Episode: Rabbi Saul becomes Apostle Paul

Taylor Marshall

Published: 09 June 2009 2:25 AM CDT

Listen to 1st Episode: Rabbi Saul becomes Apostle Paul

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In this message we look at the Apostle Paul’s background as a Jewish Rabbi and the significance of his conversion for first century Christians and its importance for us today. In particular we examine the details of Paul’s conversion and discover the how it led to the foundational doctrine of Catholic Christianity – that the Church is the Body of Christ.

Godspeed,

Taylor Marshall

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About the Author

Taylor was an Episcopal priest in Fort Worth, Texas before being received into the Catholic Church by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth. Taylor was also formerly the Assistant Director of the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., located three blocks north of the White House, where he lectured regularly. He was served under Archbishop John J. Myers and Msgr. William Stetson for the Pastoral Provision of John Paul II, the canonical structure by which Anglican clergy are received into the Catholic Church and then go on to pursue Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. He is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R. Theology), Nashotah Theological House (Certificate in Anglican Studies), and University of Dallas (M.A. Philosophy). He is currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Dallas where he studies the Natural Law theory of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae Ia Iaa qq. 94-108). Taylor and his wife live in Dallas, Texas with their five children. He is the author of The Catholic Perspective on Paul (forthcoming). Visit his personal site at: www.taylormarshall.com Taylor is also the Editor of Christian and American at: www.christianandamerican.com.

9 Comments

John

Posted June 11, 2009 at 2:28 AM

Sweet podcast. I look forward to listening to the whole series.
MartinT

Posted August 31, 2009 at 2:54 PM

Download help please: I right click the link in Firefox and download the file and it appears to download properly but will not play in windows media player or winamp (my default program). Without going into the long version of my story I am not able to use itunes. Do you have any idea.
kaballah

Posted September 1, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Completely I share your opinion. In it something is also idea excellent, agree with you.
Richard Rojas

Posted November 9, 2009 at 8:09 AM

Hey Taylor! This is Rich Rojas; we both went to Westminster. I’m digging your podcast. I’d say your portrayal of Paul is accurate but no more Catholic than Reformed/Protestant. Therefore, as a Reformed guy, I can agree with all you teaching and drop out on the conclusions. …Funny how it all comes down to Magisterial authority. I’m getting historical De ja Vu.
Emil Anton

Posted December 6, 2009 at 6:20 AM

Well done. Indeed I think the modern New Perspective and the Catholic Perspective can come together in the concept of participation as key to Pauline thought. One needs to be precise about it though since people can mean very different things with it. For example one of the leading Finnish Pauline scholars (Kari Kuula) holds that Pauline participation means a union with a Christ-Spirit, a sort of sub-divine spirit into which the non-incarnated non-divine Jewish man Jesus was changed (this is the resurrection). Thus there is no real place for the death of Jesus in the participation, no real place for the sacraments either… We need to emphasize it is participation in the PASCHAL MYSTERY that we are talking about. It’s everywhere in Paul and it brings together death and bodily resurrection, grace and sacraments.
Desta Leta

Posted December 25, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Hello dear tayler,
I am struggling to understand the book of Romans chapter 7. I think you posted Dr. Scott Hahn’s analysis but I could not find because I am new to twitter.
Please help me to read what you posted.
Desta Leta
Taylor Marshall

Posted December 29, 2009 at 4:18 PM

Dear Desta,

Hear you go:

http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2009/06/romans-6-vs-romans-7-part-ii-original.html
Raymond James Canute

Posted April 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM

Hi Taylor!

With regard to your book, how will it be different to Crossan’s In Search of Paul? As far as I know, Crossan is a Catholic as well, but on the liberal end of the spectrum.
Arthur Hawthorne

Posted June 15, 2010 at 5:24 PM

Mr. Marshall,

It is really a pleasure to listen to your podcasts; step by step, very clear and informative. I am passing this around to some people that are in a position to use it and understand it.

A friend in Christ,
Arthur