TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gooder, Paula,
TI  - Phoebe: a story (with notes) : Pauline Christianity in narrative form 
SN  - 1473669723
AV  - PR6107.O63 P56 2018
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  -  Hodder & Stoughton, 
KW  - Phoebe
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women in the Bible
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - Religious fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308)
N2  - Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in writing to the church they almost surely met in her home, Paul refers to her both as a deacon and as a helper or patron of many. But who was this remarkable woman? In this, her first work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Phoebe's story - who she was, the life she lived and her 1st-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's theology, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church
ER  -