#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…
#38 Constance, Trent, and Dort
In the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, papal contests haunted the Roman Catholic Church. The Papacy’s move to Avignon was supported by many and condemned by others. These events lead to two popes within Catholicism: a pope in Rome and another in Avignon…
#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…