Apostle Paul

Description

The apostle Paul’s dramatic and much discussed conversion on the road to Damascus radically changed the course of his life-as well as the Christian religion. Can a new narrative, and a new perspective, be brought to this two-thousand-year-old story and centuries of critical thought and study? The writer and filmmaker Robert Orlando believes it can. ‘Apostle Paul’ is a dramatic and challenging book, inspired by his controversial film of the same name. This groundbreaking look at Paul’s life draws on extensive research into Paul’s letters and the book of Acts to reveal Paul’s human attitudes and insecurities. Orlando reconstructs a fresh take on the Apostle Paul’s life, especially his collection for the Jerusalem church, and proposes that Paul, as one of Christianity’s most celebrated converts, may have needed more than faith and fervor to convince the other apostles to accept his vision of Christian ministry. ‘Apostle Paul’ illustrates how a vision of promise eventually leads to a hopeless prison cell and, ultimately, a new religion, challenging the traditional perspective and inspiring new thought on one of the best-known founders of the Christian religion. Robert Orlando is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with over twenty years’ experience as a storyteller across mediums. Orlando is also a public speaker, freelance writer, and director in New York City, where he founded Nexus Media. His latest film and book adaptation, ‘Silence Patton’, is a follow-up to ‘Apostle Paul: A Polite Bribe’.