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Sacred Scripture: A Catholic Study of God’s Word
 Letters Attributed to Paul

 St. Paul: The Source of the New
Testament Letters
 The Thirteen New Testament Letters
 The Letter to the Hebrews
Part 2B The New Testament Letters
Paul’s Letters
1. There are a total of twenty-one letters or epistles in the
New Testament
2. Fourteen have been traditionally attributed to St. Paul
3. Hebrews does not claim to be a work of Paul
but was attached to the Pauline letters at
the time it was accepted into the canon
4. Among the thirteen letters that claim Paul
as their author, there is debate about his
role in the authorship of six of these
Paul’s Letters
5. Literary form of Paul’s letters:
6. The letters are arranged in a rough approximation of
longest to shortest – beginning
Opening addresswith Romans and
ending with Philemon
Thanksgiving
7. In Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians,
Body
1 Thessalonians, andofPhilemon
the Letterthere is a consistency
of style, vocabulary, and theological emphasis

Final Salutations
8. Possible pseudonymous works include 2 Thessalonians,
Colossians, and Ephesians
Background on St. Paul

1. Paul is known through his own letters and the Acts
2. He was born a Jew and was a persecutor of the Church
3. He defended his role and authority as an Apostle
4. He had an eyewitness experience of the Risen Jesus
5. Paul expended himself for the rest of his life in his
ministry to the Gentiles, experiencing both successes
and defeats, triumphs and great suffering
6. Ancient custom suggests he died in
Rome during the persecutions
The Theology of St. Paul Salvation is a free gift from

God that demands faith.
The brothers and We cannot earn Salvation
sisters of Christ Christians are bound on our own merits.
should treat others together in one Body,
the Church, of which Christians will participate
with dignity. We must
Jesus is the head. in the Resurrection of
love one another.
Jesus Christ. After the Last
The Holy Spirit is the Judgment, the universe will
Following Jesus be renewed. The Kingdom
life of the Church
means that we must of God will come in
who enables us to
suffer for him gladly. fullness. The just will
call God Abba.
reign with Christ forever.
The heart of the Gospel is the Death God will then be “all in all”
and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. in eternal life.
The Letter to the Romans

1. This is Paul’s longest and deepest theological letter
2. He is concerned that missionaries in Rome with Jewish
roots are directing Gentiles to keep Jewish Law
3. He teaches it is faith in Christ’s Death and Resurrection
that reconciles us to God, not “works of the Law”
4. Christ’s work brings:  justification,  peace with God,
 the Holy Spirit,  reconciliation with God,  salvation
from God’s wrath,  hope of a share in God’s eternal
glory,  God’s superabundant love poured out on us
5. We don’t earn Jesus intervention in history, nor can we
earn our Salvation by any human means
First and Second Corinthians

1. In Ephesus Paul received news that the church in
Corinth had broken into rival groups with different
leaders and many had fallen back into pagan practices
2. First Corinthians (c. AD 56) is a reaction to this
3. Second Corinthians (AD 57) is Paul’s response to the
good news that the Corinthians were beginning to
reject false teachers and respond to Paul’s teachings
Themes in 1 Corinthians Love never fails
Jesus’ teachings called for even

The institution of greater respect for the human
Women may the Lord’s Supper body and the most important and
certainly pray
intimate relationships
and prophesy in
the assemblies, No believer should
but must dress do anything to Since there are no real gods behind
respectably damage another pagan idols, eating meat sacrificed
person’s faith in religious rites is fine
The Church is the Temple of the The presence of the Spirit of God not only
Holy Spirit where all parts of the joins us together with others, but also
Body of Christ are joined together wants us to recognize and preserve our
with Christ as the head duty to care for one another
Themes in the Other Letters

Galatians
• Paul defends his ministry and his place
2 Corinthians as an Apostle as well as his message
• Paul tries to make that Gentiles are free from the Law
peace with the • Only faith in Jesus Christ, not
Corinthians observance of the Jewish Law,
• Christian principles guarantees Salvation
are contrasted with • Baptism incorporates all Christians into
the Old Covenant the Church as children of God
• Being set free from the Law by faith
does not mean license to do what you
want
Ephesians Philippians
• Paul blesses God (in a hymn) • Joy in the Lord for those who
not only for having blessed live in the Church
humans in every way, and • The need for Christian
especially for having revealed harmony, peace, and humility
to us his eternal plan to unite • It is necessary to imitate
everything in his name under Christ in his sufferings
Heaven and earth • There is no true love without
• It is your responsibility to work the giving of one’s self, and
towards the fulfillment of God’s that truth is the only
plan foundation for real honor
Colossians 1 Thessalonians
• If you want to see • Remain holy, especially avoiding sexual
God, look at immorality
Jesus because • Christians who have died with Christ will one
Christ is the very day rise and live with him forever
image of God • Remember the end of the world
• It may possibly • Commendation for their great progress in
address some the practice of their faith
false teachings of • Refrain from sexual immorality and promote
the Gnostics love and concern for one another
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
• Jesus will not come again • Corrections of false teachers in
until certain signs take place
the church of Ephesus
• Christians need to prepare • The Church is the pillar and
themselves for his return
foundation of truth
• Those who ignore his • Directives on the kind of people
advice to go to work and
who should be chosen to hold key
earn money for their food
positions in the Church
should be avoided, so in
• “True” widows should be cared
shame they will return to the
for by the community
Church

Titus
2 Timothy • Bishops should hold
• Reflections on a Christian facing “fast to the true
loneliness in the midst of distress, and message as taught so
the near possibility of death that he will be able to
• Paul’s imprisonment and death are not both exhort with
dishonorable sound doctrine and to
• Do not get lost in the pointless refute opponents “
disputes, or be swayed by false • Rules for the behavior
teachings of differing age
• Dire warnings that wickedness will groups, particularly
precede the end times urging self-control

Philemon
• Rather than fight a system that was
going to fade away at the Lord’s return,
slaves should remain as they are and be
the best slaves possible
• Masters should remember that they too
will have to answer to the true Master in
Heaven for their treatment of slaves
• Philemon should not punish Onesimus
and should treat him as a brother in
Christ
Background on the Letter to the Hebrews

1. While the author is anonymous, evidence suggests it
was not Paul
2. The author possesses a classic education and was
almost certainly a Jewish Christian
3. The community seems to have endured terrible suffering
4. Written as a homily, it was composed some time in the
last twenty years of the first century
5. This letter was controversial because of its hard–line
stance against apostasy
Themes in Hebrews
1. Christ is the high priest and the model of our faith
2. Christ both is, and offers, the sacrifice on our behalf
3. Christ’s Death on the Cross perfectly achieved,
once and for all, the reconciliation between
humanity and God that the yearly Temple
sacrifices could not
4. Unlike the Jewish high priests, Christ was
“holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from
sinners, higher than the heavens”
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Sacred Scripture: A Catholic Study of God’s Word

 Letters Attributed to Paul

of style, vocabulary, and theological emphasis

Background on St. Paul

The Theology of St. Paul Salvation is a free gift from

The Letter to the Romans

First and Second Corinthians

Themes in 1 Corinthians Love never fails

Jesus’ teachings called for even

Themes in the Other Letters

Themes in the Other Letters

Themes in the Other Letters

Themes in the Other Letters

Themes in the Other Letters

Themes in the Other Letters

Background on the Letter to the Hebrews

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