Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction

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Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction. By Victor Copan. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007, xxvi + 296 pp., £19.99 paper.

This book is an analysis of the "concept of the imitation of Paul as reflected in the uncontested Pauline epistles in order to determine its relevance to the practice of spiritual direction" (p. 1). It is an updated 2001 doctoral dissertation originally submitted to the University of Vienna, supervised by Dr. Suzanne …