Death and Resurrection of Identity

Paul's conversion is the most famous identity change in Western history. It is also the least understood.Death and Resurrection of Identity 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.The book examines:How Saul's Pharisaic identity was formed - and how it held himThe Damascus experience as both a spiritual encounter and a psychological ruptureThe long reconstruction: the silent years, the reintegration of the persecuted pastPaul's own theology of conversion in his letters - worked out from his own storyWhat this pattern means for anyone facing a transformation that dissolves who they used to beThis 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.