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8 - The Pastoral Epistles

from Part II - The Pauline Letter Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

By
James W. Aageson
Edited by
Bruce W. Longenecker
Bruce W. Longenecker
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
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Summary

The Pastoral Epistles, read individually or together, give us glimpses into the way the church was developing institutionally and the way the Christian message was to be understood and handled in the period beyond Paul’s death. They represent a particular way of thinking about the church and exercising leadership in a church that was moving from a charismatic movement to an institutional reality prepared for life in the Greco-Roman imperial world. In short, the Pastoral letters represent an important hinge point in the development of early Christianity and, as such, they are fascinating both historically and theologically and deserve attention in their own right.

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Pastoral EpistlesPaulIgnatiusChristian ecclesiologyinstitutional development
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The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul , pp. 152 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Aageson, James W. “The Pastoral Epistles and the Acts of Paul: A Multiplex Approach to Authority in Paul’s Legacy.” Lexington Quarterly Review 40 (2005): 237–248.Google Scholar
Aageson, James W. Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2008.Google Scholar
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Collins, Raymond F. I & II Timothy and Titus: A Commentary. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2002.Google Scholar
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Johnson, Luke Timothy. The First and Second Letters to Timothy. New York: Doubleday, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marshall, I. Howard. “Recent Study of the Pastoral Epistles.” Themelios 23 (1997): 3–21.Google Scholar
MacDonald, Dennis R. The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1983.Google Scholar
MacDonald, Margaret Y. The Pauline Churches: A Socio-Historical Study of Institutionalization in Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maier, Harry O. Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013.Google Scholar
Schröter, Jens. “Paul the Founder of the Church: Reflections on the Reception of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pastoral Epistles.” In Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in light of the Pauline Letters, edited by Moessner, David, Marguerat, Daniel, Parsons, Mikeal, and Wolter, Michael, 195–219. New York: T&T Clark, 2012.Google Scholar
Torjesen, Karen Jo. When Women Were Priests: Women’s Leadership in the Early Church & the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1993.Google Scholar
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