2. A Survey of the New Testament
Chapter 17
The Catholic, or General, Letters

3. James: Salvation by Works 17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Introductory Issues
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Authorship
Jewishness
Canonicity
Addressees

4. James: Salvation by Works 17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Introductory Issues
Date
Allusions to Jesus’ Sayings
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Reading James with Interpretation
Topics

5. A (once-) Polished Metal Mirror
note the mention
in James 1:23-24

6. one of the nature images used in James (3:18)
Harvest
(viz. Winnowing)
one of the nature images used in James (3:18)

7. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Introductory Issues
Theme
Authorship
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Date
Silvanus’s Role

8. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Introductory Issues
Roman Origin
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

9. Rome (The Circus Maximus)
probably the “Babylon” from which Peter writes

10. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Introductory Issues
Roman Origin
Addressees
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

11. one of the provinces named in the address of 1 Peter
Cappadocia
one of the provinces named in the address of 1 Peter

12. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Introductory Issues
Roman Origin
Addressees
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
An Outline of First Peter

13. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Reading First Peter with Interpretation
Suffering and Reward
Good Conduct
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

14. Woman with braided hair
(1 Peter 3:3)

15. First Peter: Salvation and Suffering
Reading First Peter with Interpretation
Suffering and Reward
Good Conduct
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Descent into Hell
Baptism
Exhortations

16. Second Peter: In Defense of Orthodoxy
Introductory Issues
Theme
Authenticity and Canonicity
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

17. Reflecting the tradition of his crucifixion upside-down
The Martyrdom of Peter
Reflecting the tradition of his crucifixion upside-down

18. Second Peter: In Defense of Orthodoxy
Introductory Issues
Theme
Authenticity and Canonicity
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Relation to Jude
Allusion to Paul’s Letters
An Outline of Second Peter

19. Second Peter: In Defense of Orthodoxy
Reading Second Peter with Interpretation
Reliability of Orthodoxy
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

20. Jude: Danger! False Teachers! 17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Introductory Issues
Theme
Authorship
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
An Outline of Jude

21. Jude: Danger! False Teachers! 17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Reading Jude with Interpretation
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

22. Fragments from 1 Enoch
quoted in Jude 14-15

23. Jude: Danger! False Teachers! 17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Reading Jude with Interpretation
False Teachers
Pseudepigraphal References
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters

24. First John: Fatherly Instruction to “Little Children”
Introductory Issues
Theme
Literary Form, Address, and Purpose
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Antignostic Polemic
Cerinthianism
Docetism

25. First John: Fatherly Instruction to “Little Children”
An Outline of First John
Reading First John with Interpretation
Sinlessness?
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
The Sin unto Death

26. 2 & 3 John: Fatherly Instruction to Christians
Introductory Issues
Canonicity and Authorship
An Outline of Second John
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters
Reading Second John with Interpretation
Themes, Purpose, and Address

27. 2 & 3 John: Fatherly Instruction to Christians
An Outline of Third John
Reading Third John with Purpose
Theme, Address, and Purpose
17 – The Catholic, or General, Letters