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Nijay Gupta discusses how Paul's letters address living in the present rather than just preparing for the afterlife.

Paul wasn't just helping people get to heaven. Nijay Gupta joins me to make the case that Paul's letters were written for people trying to figure out how to live, not how to escape. Drawing from his new book Paul for the World, Nijay walks through the Greco-Roman world Paul was writing into - its economic disparity, its philosophies, its hunger for meaning - and shows how we can see our world similarly. The conversation moves through economics, the arts, the Stoics, and the resurrection to la...

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Host: Joshua Johnson

Guest: Nijay Gupta

Topics covered

• New Creation
• Paul's Letters
• Greco-Roman World
• Economic Disparity
• Philosophy
• Resurrection

Keywords

• Nijay Gupta
• Paul
• New Creation
• Greco-Roman
• Economic Disparity
• Philosophy
• Resurrection

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Books & works: Paul for the World

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