"A stirring account of the life of Paul, who brought Christianity to the Jews, by the most popular writer on religion in the English-speaking world, Karen Armstrong, author of The History of God, which has been translated into thirty languages"-- Provided by publisher.

St. Paul established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century; transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization; and advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. Yet he had been a zealous Pharisee, and has long been considered a misogynist and a supporter of slavery. Armstrong discusses the little we know about aspects of the early life of St. Paul, shows how the life that followed forever changed the course of history.