Death and Resurrection of Identity: A Theological-Psychological Portrait of Apostle Paul

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 him
• The Damascus experience as both a spiritual encounter and a psychological rupture
• The long reconstruction: the silent years, the reintegration of the persecuted past
• Paul's own theology of conversion in his letters — worked out from his own story
• What this pattern means for anyone facing a transformation that dissolves who they used to be

This 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.