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In this second podcast, we explore the history of Pauline interpretation extending from the heretic Marcion in the second century on through Martin Luther, and finally in the liberal German revisionism of F.C. Baur. As Saint Peter wrote two thousand years ago, within the writings of Saint Paul, “There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures” (2 Pet 3:16). Mindful of these words we observe how thinkers have reshaped Paul in their own image according to their own prejudices.
Godspeed,
Taylor Marshall
Taylor was an Episcopal priest in Fort Worth, Texas before being received into the Catholic Church by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth.
Taylor was also formerly the Assistant Director of the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., located three blocks north of the White House, where he lectured regularly. He was served under Archbishop John J. Myers and Msgr. William Stetson for the Pastoral Provision of John Paul II, the canonical structure by which Anglican clergy are received into the Catholic Church and then go on to pursue Holy Orders in the Catholic Church.
He is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R. Theology), Nashotah Theological House (Certificate in Anglican Studies), and University of Dallas (M.A. Philosophy). He is currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Dallas where he studies the Natural Law theory of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae Ia Iaa qq. 94-108). Taylor and his wife live in Dallas, Texas with their five children. He is the author of The Catholic Perspective on Paul (forthcoming).
Visit his personal site at: www.taylormarshall.com
Taylor is also the Editor of Christian and American at: www.christianandamerican.com. 
Good show, I like learning about Marcion. I never knew if it was MarSEEon or MarKEYon.
One side note is that you said you were not sure if Acts was written after Paul was dead, but one cool point that Fr Pacwa made one time was that the longest chapter in Acts is ch7 which is St Stephen’s martyrdom. Thus this strongly points to the idea that if Paul was dead when Acts was written, then surely St Luke would have mentioned it.
Great series!
Amazing how your work is almost identical with mine although done totally separately and independently. (btw it’s our Independence day today, long live Finland!) My Finnish book “Katolinen Paavali” (The Catholic Paul) uses the same method – accepting all the traditional material in the NT and arguing for Catholic doctrines and practices on a purely Pauline basis. I took more pains though to go through some of the arguments against the predominant view in the academia that Paul only wrote 7 epistles and that the theologies of Acts and Paul are so different that the authors cannot have been close companions.
Emil,
Incredible. I even have an appendix that argues for the Pauline authorship of the Pauline epistles.
taylor
Wonderful!! I have been thinking about writing a whole book(let) on the authenticity of the Pauline material, because the treatment in my book is obviously brief and preliminary. It is taught as pretty much established in our university (of Helsinki) that Paul only wrote 7 letters, but the reasons are rarely explained. This prejudice needs to be defeated before it enters the Church more widely. Already now many Catholics are being influenced by it (eg the great exegete J. Fitzmyer holds to a 7 letter view)…
FYI, the world’s leading english-speaking scholar on the book of Hebrews, Fr. James Swetnam SJ, believes that Paul wrote Hebrews.