Catholic Epistles Reference library
Robert W. Wall
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
...of the collection’s formation from Irenaeus and Tertullian against Marcion, through Origen and on to Augustine: at every turn the insistence is that the Pauline witness must be placed in an appropriate interpretive frame, provided by the Catholic Epistles collection, lest tradents contract the spiritual sickness of antinomianism. The Unifying Ethic of the Catholic Epistles Collection. The Catholic Epistles collection is a work of aesthetic excellence—i.e., its final form presents the most useful version of the moral traditions, once received from its...
