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Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the “non-Pauline epistles” or “concluding letters,” maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in plain sight, and it’s time to give them the attention they deserve. In Letters...

Gospels began circulating among Christian communities as a fourfold collection. Not long after that, a collection of Paul’s letters was read by Christians as far as Pontus and Bithynia and was received as Scripture (2 Pet 3:15–16). The central point is that we should not think of the New Testament as developing book by book but rather collection by collection. One of those important collections was the group of letters called the Catholic Epistles. Now that
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