Reviews
Patrick Hartin ably reaches into the Pauline letters and illuminates the significant facets of Paul's life in Christ. Readers will come away with a fresh appreciation of a way of living the gospel that has influenced every generation of Christians across the world. The grace and freedom Paul experienced in learning to live in Christ is also explored in a sampling of Christian witnesses who embody the power of the cross and resurrection, the transforming effect of grace, the unmerited gift of faith, and the value of a community of believers bound together in Christ. Perceptive and refreshing.
Cackie Upchurch, Director, Little Rock Scripture Study
A Window into the Spirituality of Paul is an excellent and stimulating synthetic presentation of Paul and his spirituality. Fr. Patrick Hartin's perceptive guide to Paul's spirituality treats of major aspects Paul's spiritual vision that are indispensable for Christian life in Christ and his community of faith: the decisive significance of the cross and resurrection; God's transforming grace; faith in Christ; humanity renewed in Christ; a community oriented spirituality, lived in expectation of the end times. Hartin concludes his valuable study by showing how the four foundational pillars of Pauline spirituality hold importance in our spirituality today.
John Navone, SJ, Emeritus Professor of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
A Window into the Spirituality of Paul is no small peephole into the Apostle. It is, in fact, a large picture window that illuminates the central elements of Paul's spirituality in ways that will be helpful to many people, especially to college students and lay Bible study groups. Consistent with his perspective that the essence of biblical spirituality includes both spiritual vision and everyday response to that vision, he develops a Pauline spirituality that attends to the individual's relationship with Christ while also showing how that relationship can become a pattern for living.
Rev. Walter F. Taylor, Jr., Ernest W. and Edith S. Ogram Professor of New Testament Studies, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
In his newest book, Patrick Hartin guides us through an often challenging but ultimately rewarding look at the spirituality of Paul. Through a deeper understanding of this early believer's life and experience, we see it as a model for four later-day Christians and for us as well. With such guides as these, and as "partners with Paul in grace", our spiritual lives can only be enriched.
Judy Gritzmacher, Oratory Center for Spirituality, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Patrick Hartin is one of those rare scholars who can share the fruits of critical study of the biblical text with lay readers in such a way as to maintain the richness and depth of his scholarship in genuinely consequential ways for the religious life and imagination of readers. And in this book he is at his best in that role.
Rob Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Those who found valuable insights from Fr. Hartin's Exploring the Spirituality of the Gospels will also find great value in this study of Paul. Following a somewhat similar format of this earlier book, Hartin continues to demonstrate how a greater understanding of the contexts within which Paul wrote allows modern readers better insights into how biblical texts might be best utilized by contemporary audiences. These insights would especially apply to those who have questions about Paul's Mediterranean life or are interested in examples of more recent lives that continue to sustain Paul's early examples from the Christian tradition.
Ken Stenstrup, Assistant Professor of Theology, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
This is fine spiritual reading.
The Bible Today
"A Window into the Spirituality of Paul will be a welcome addition to a library with New Testament reference materials or a collection of works on biblical spirituality. Hartin's work is accessible yet challenging."
Mary Rose Collins, Catholic Library World
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