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Paul’s influence on the history of Christian life and theology is as profound as it is pervasive. A brief survey of almost 20 centuries of Christian thought and practice will confirm the enduring importance of Paul for the life of the church in the Roman and Protestant traditions of the West as well as the Orthodox traditions of the East. Even as Christianity, at the dawn of its third millennium,...

point between the historical Paul on the one hand and the Pauline legacy on the other, and the decision about authorship simply moves the Pastorals from one side of that balance point to the other. In either case, we must attend to their links to the historical Paul, to the undisputed letters, and to the Pauline legacy. The arguments by Dennis MacDonald and Richard Bauckham set the categories for this scholarly debate.20 According to MacDonald, the author
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