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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...

if the society within the church—relating to one another as equals across all lines of status—had meant the abolition of all such divisions. We know from the Letters of Paul that the ideal was always a goal, and also that often the church continued practicing the sinful divisions of the society even within the church (see especially 1 Cor. 11 and 12). But the early Christians had enough experience of this different society within the church to feel that they were living in two worlds. Clearly, in
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