By John J.R. Lee
Professor of New Testament, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
In what sense was Paul able to reconcile his Jewish monotheistic faith (or his commitment to the Shema) with his devotion to Jesus as a divine figure? How could a teacher in Israel, who once was so passionately devoted to the worship of the one God and was willing to do even violence against a perceived threat to this worship, see his faith in Jesus as the fulfillment of the Torah? This was, undoubtedly, a crucial question in the first century AD, and it remains so two millennia later.
