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Letters of Grace & Beauty: A Guided Literary Study of New Testament Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the third of a six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature. As with the first two volumes (How Bible Stories Work and Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold), the author explores the intersection of the Bible and literature. In this third volume, Dr. Ryken shows pastors, students, and teachers of the Bible how the literary craftsmanship of the epistles leads to a richer...

The brevity of this chapter should not be construed as a sign that the subject is unimportant. Much of the foundation has already been laid, and beyond that, the facts of the matter can be briefly stated. We then need to apply the principles of organization to every epistle as we come to it. This chapter will explore three subjects: how we need to resist certain fallacies about the structure of the epistles; a review of data from earlier chapters
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