Winner - CRT Christian Book of the Year, 2023
The New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe.
In her second work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story - who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church.
Written in the gripping style of Gerd Theissen's The Shadow of the Galilean, and similarly rigorously researched, this is a book for everyone and anyone who wants to engage more deeply and imaginatively with Paul's theology - from one of the UK's foremost New Testament scholars.
| ISBN: | 9781444792058 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 2023 |
| Author: | Paula Gooder |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton an imprint of John Murray Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
Christianity Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Theology |
Winner - CRT Christian Book of the Year, 2023
The New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe.
In her second work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story - who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church.
Written in the gripping style of Gerd Theissen's The Shadow of the Galilean, and similarly rigorously researched, this is a book for everyone and anyone who wants to engage more deeply and imaginatively with Paul's theology - from one of the UK's foremost New Testament scholars.
Lydia features in the following genres: Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Theology
Lydia is available in Paperback, Hardback
Lydia was written by Paula Gooder and published by Hodder & Stoughton an imprint of John Murray Press
Lydia has 336 pages
£9.89