I need scholarly quotes on Paul the Apostle?

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The Synoptic Gospels reveal that the early Christian community meditated on the significance of the events that had been experienced by eyewitnesses.  For Paul, it was different.  Not that he was ignorant of the basic facts of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus.  These formed the core of the original tradition which Paul transmitted in his preaching.  But when it came to theologizing, Paul had different tools to work with.  Like the other Apostles, his basic starting point was the resurrection of Christ--no one more than Paul was fired with the conviction of the reality of the risen Lord.  But unlike those who took the road of personal memories back to the public life of Jesus, Paul preferred the road he knew better--Scripture and the rabbinical formation of his youth, and his knowledge of the Gentile world.  He sought, therefore, to understand and explain the risen Lord in relation to:

1) the basic quest of the Israelite for salvation, which he knew, better than any other, had become tied to the observance of the Torah, and

2) to the basic preoccupations of the Gentiles to whom Paul was presenting Christ.

     The riches of Paul's insight lie for us today in his epistles.  Yet it must be confessed that most who listen to and read passages from those epistles would have to confess a lack of understanding to some degree.  If Paul is to be understood at all, he must be understood first as a theologian.

     Many books written on his life naturally have as their chief concern factual material, the events of his journeys, dates, geography, links with events and persons in contemporary history.  But there is a gap between the life story of Paul and the final synthesis of his thought.

     It is in Paul's epistles that we get a real introduction to theology, for there we see how Paul, penetrating the Roman Empire with the message of Christ, is faced with questions of doctrine and moral from Jew and Gentile, from persecutor and magistrate and convert.  In answer, he not only recalls the basic truths of the kerygma*, but deepens his own understanding of them and finds in them ever new depths.  For Paul, above all, Christ is the living, risen Lord coming at the end of time but likewise present and active in the Church, transforming and giving meaning to all it experiences.

(paraphrased from the author's introduction to "Christianity according to Saint Paul", by  Charles A. Anderson Scott)

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*Kerygma (κήρυγμα, kérugma"pronounced "kay-roog-ma") is the Greek word used in the New Testament for preaching. It is related to the Greek verb κηρύσσω (kērússō), to cry or proclaim as a herald, and means proclamation, announcement, or preaching.