Comments on: Episode #2 Will the real Paul please stand up?

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:43:35 +0000

FYI, the world’s leading english-speaking scholar on the book of Hebrews, Fr. James Swetnam SJ, believes that Paul wrote Hebrews.

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By: Emil Anton

Emil Anton — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:40:44 +0000

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)…

By: Taylor Marshall

Taylor Marshall — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:01:17 +0000

Emil,

Incredible. I even have an appendix that argues for the Pauline authorship of the Pauline epistles.

taylor

By: Emil Anton

Emil Anton — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:39 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:54:54 +0000

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!