Death and Resurrection of Identity

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paul's conversion is the most famous identity change in Western history. It is also the least understood.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Death and Resurrection of Identity</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is an interdisciplinary portrait of that transformation. Arthur Tiger brings four lenses to the Damascus road - theology psychology anthropology and leadership theory - and shows how the event on that road was not the whole change only its trigger. The real work of becoming Paul took years and it touched every layer of the self: belief relationships calling language body.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The book examines:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How Saul's Pharisaic identity was formed - and how it held him</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Damascus experience as both a spiritual encounter and a psychological rupture</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The long reconstruction: the silent years the reintegration of the persecuted past</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paul's own theology of conversion in his letters - worked out from his own story</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What this pattern means for anyone facing a transformation that dissolves who they used to be</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a book for theologians and psychologists for readers interested in conversion as a human phenomenon and - especially - for those living through a metamorphosis of their own identity.</span></p>