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NT286 Survey of the General Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

This course covers the seven biblical letters known as the Catholic Epistles. After an overview of the Catholic Epistles in general, students will explore issues such as authorship and audience in James, as well as themes such as perfection/wholeness, faith, works and justification. First and Second Peter are covered next with a focus on submission, suffering and responding to false teachers. The...

this sequence might be suggested by Paul’s listing of the pillar apostles in Jerusalem in Gal 2:9. This might be indicative of an early tradition that saw these apostles from Jerusalem and their teaching embedded in their letters as being collected according to Paul’s description of those pillar apostles—James, Peter, and John.