Comments on the General Epistles

Beginning in May 2020 I did an in-depth study of the General Epistles. It was more of a thematic rather than a verse by verse study. I have long had the sense that we read the General Epistles through the lens of the Apostle Paul’s writings, but the General Epistles are not Pauline, so such an approach is often misleading. So more than anything, this study was an attempt to hear what these epistles had to say on their own terms. It took well over a year and in the end I wrote up my results. But what should I do with a monograph on the General Epistles? I decided to serialize these writings in a series of essays. Since it is difficult to find one’s way around a blog, this page is a Table of Contents to this series of essays.

Here is a list of the General Epistles with a link to the first essay of each epistle. (Note that these epistles are not in the order found in the New Testament.) As essays are posted, I will add links to this page.

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

Jude

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Concluding Summary