#42 1 Peter
Martin Luther, the great Protestant and Lutheran reformer, “recognized 1 Peter (along with the Gospel of John and Paul’s Letters) as ‘the true kernel and marrow of all the New Testament Books. For in them [readers]… find depicted in masterly fashion how faith in Christ overcomes sin, death, and hell, and gives life, righteousness, and salvation.”
#40 Hebrews
Because the author of Hebrews is unknown, it can only be said that the Epistle is the work of “one of the [greatest] theologians of the New Testament.” While it is unclear to whom this title belongs, there have been many assumed authors, such as the Apostle Paul…
#39 Titus
In a similar fashion to all Pauline epistles, the Apostle Paul greets Titus by acknowledging himself as the author: “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ” (Titus 1:1). For this reason and more, the Epistle to Titus was unequivocally attributed to the Apostle Paul, apart from Marcion, until the nineteenth century…
#37 Philemon
The Apostle Paul's authorship of Philemon, the shortest book in the New Testament, is uncontested by most New Testament scholars.1 The Tubingen School made the only occasion of an argument against Pauline authorship in the nineteenth century and has since been dismissed as irrelevant and untrue…
#36 I Corinthians
The first letter to the Corinthian church addresses a plethora of issues. The church at Corinth, plagued by “division (1-4), sexual immorality (5-7), and disordered worship (8-10),”1 is having a difficult time shaking off Greco-Roman values. However, this is not the first time that Paul writes to the Corinthian church…
#35 Romans
Paul begins the letter to the Romans with an introduction: “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God” (Rom. 1:1).1 He immediately identifies himself as the letter's author and establishes genuine authority due to his apostleship and purpose as a minister of the Gospel…