The term 'Pastoral Epistles' applies to a group of three letters within the New Testament, namely, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus. Already in the thirteenth century Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) referred ...

Conspicuously absent from this particular early manuscript, which was dated to about 200 CE, was any of the so-called Pastoral Epistles (1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus). Accordingly, the discovery of ...

1 Timothy is the first of the Pastoral Epistles, which include 1 Tim, 2 Tim and Titus. Paul's authorship of the Pastoral Epistles is hotly contested, but the arguments against his authorship are ...

By around the first quarter of the second century, Paul’s letters were well enough known to inspire imitators and mimics in the form of the pastoral epistles. Before the ’90s or so, Paul’s letters ...

8:19). And again, consecration for ministry by hand is assumed in the pastoral epistles. Timothy is told not to neglect the gift given to him “when the council of elders laid their hands on you” (1 ...

The elderly bard, John Lapraik (1727-1807) of Dalfram, Muirkirk, was married to Margaret, sister of another of Burns's poetic friends, John Rankine (to whom Burns' dedicated a verse epistle).

The young friend in this poem is Andrew Hunter Aiken (d. 1831), the son of Robert Aiken (to whom The Cotter's Saturday Night is dedicated). Andrew eventually became a merchant in Liverpool before ...

The New Testament's language of 'gathering' is interesting and theologically rich. At one level, it simply designates the ...

In November, 1978, the late Cardinal Terrence Cook of New York invited the Rev. John F. Harvey, O.S.F.S. to come to his Archdiocese to establish a spiritual support system for men and women with ...

Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Pursuing a Master of Pastoral Studies degree allows students to gain specific competencies in the focus ...

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