“The Apostle Paul Was Not an Escapist." I’m not so sure. And the implied contrast, between a thoroughgoing eschatology and an ecclesial ethic, seems a false choice to me. As does that between Paul (the man, the thinker, the writer in context) and the canonical Paul, who together with the other canonical writings is what counts for Christians. That is to say, the former is not necessarily identical to the latter, and so the felt need to unite them as one is understandable but misguided.

But that’s a story for another time.