(1st century) Author of nearly half the New Testament. Paul, though personally a strict moralist and attracted to simple answers and clear, comprehensive order, struggled in his writings to include his startling vision of God’s unreserved embrace of all humanity in Christ. He said: “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s sins or faults against them, and God entrusted to us the news that people are reconciled.” (January 25)