What mode Paul Meant by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Historian Garry Wills

"If you think you knew Paul, get ready to have all sorts of cherished preconceptions exhilaratingly stripped away. If youve ever been vaguely curious, there is no finer introduction." (Los Angeles Times)



Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Quran Meant, coming fall 2017.



In his New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant and What the Gospels Meant, Garry Wills offers fresh and incisive readings of Jesus teachings and the four gospels. Here Wills turns to Paul the Apostle, whose writings have provoked controversy throughout Christian history. Upending many common assumptions, Wills argues eloquently that Pauls teachings are not opposed to Jesus message. Rather, the best way to know Jesus is to discover Paul. In this stimulating and masterly analysis, Wills illuminates how Paul, writing on the road and in the heat of the moment, and often in the midst of controversy, galvanized a movement mode and offers us the best reflection of those early times.

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.