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Theologian and church historian Catherine Gunsalus González studies three often overlooked books in the New Testament, 1 and 2 Peter and the Letter of Jude. These writings from the late first century or early second century helped guide the young church as it faced a variety of issues, both internal to the church’s life and external in the social and political culture in which it was growing. The...

to some degree. It is a word to Israel and not to us. That is hardly the opinion here. A study of 1 Peter is an opportunity to discover how the early church interpreted the Hebrew Scriptures as applying to itself in a profound way. Christians really interpreted themselves in the light of those ancient writings. Much that is essential to the biblical view of the nature of the church is to be found in this brief letter, and much of it is unintelligible without
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