I would say that Paul was one of the most explicit evangelists, traveling around Jerusalem mostly to perform missionary work, he has remained one of the most venerated saints in both the Catholic and Orthodox Church. Often times, they are shown in icons embracing each other as a symbol for our longing of a brotherly reunification. Paul wrote many epistles, most of which remain as the dogmatic center the liturgical and extra-liturgical roles of deacons priests and bishops. He has also received much criticism from rabbinic perspectives for his role as the “Apostle to the Gentiles,” who was an “antinomian to his teacher Gamaliel.” according to Daniel Langton’s Paul in Jewish Thought. Paul is also critiqued by some muslim scholars as he is generally attributed with corrupting the original teachings of Jesus and takes on the Islamic representation of a gentile.
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