Perspectives on Paul: Date and Authorship of the Epistles
I will review how date and authorship is determined (or not) and how that relates to the way we will answer the question of Paul’s gospel.
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Byhenry. . . but they supposedly recount one incident. The first came to me via the Traditional Values Coalition alert e-mail, which is generally quite strident. It referred me to this story on Alain’s Newsletter, which tends to make the TVC alerts look calm, collected, and irenic. Now here’s another story, this time from The…
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Christian Carnival Hosting
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On Churches, Drinking, and Weaker Brethren
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