Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, is Professor of Theology at Fredrich Schiller University of Jena. He lives in Jena, Germany.Robert W. Wall is the Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Called to Be Church, The New Interpreter's Bible: Acts (Volume 10), and Community of the Wise: The Letter of James (New Testament in Context). He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Summa summarum, this is a significant contribution to, and stimulation of, conversation on the formation of the New Testament canon and of the place and function of the Catholic Epistles within the canon. It is likewise to be hailed for its needed attention to some neglected canonical waifs. -- Review of Biblical Literature

• Introduction: Two Retrospectives1. R. W. Wall, Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Traditions: A Retrospective2. K-W Niebuhr, Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition: Retrospect with PerspectiveInterpreting the Catholic Epistles as a Collection3. R. W. Wall, A Unifying Theology of the Catholic Epistles: a Canonical Approach (2003)4. C. C. Newman, The Theology of the Apostles: The Convictional World Beneath the Catholic Epistles (2003)A New Perspective on James5.K.-W. Niebuhr, A Letter from Jerusalem: James in the Mind of the Recipients of his Epistles (2004)6. R. W. Wall, The Priority of James (2004)7. R. W. Wall, Acts and James: The Prospect of Intracanonical Readings (2002)8. J. Painter, James as the First Catholic Epistle (2006)9. D. R. Nienhuis, The Letter of James as a Canon-Conscious Pseudepigraph (2006)10. M. Konradt, James' Epistle as an Epistle of James: Considerations on the Historical Context of the Letter of James in Light of its Traditio-Historical Relations with First Peter and on its Pseudepigraphical Background (2001)11. P. Hartin, James and the Jesus-tradition - some theological reflections and implications (2001)12. J. S. Kloppenborg, The Reception of the Jesus Tradition in James (2003)Petrine Epistles13.R. Feldmeier, Salvation of the Soul: Reflections on the Soeriology and Anthropology of the First Epistle of Peter (2001)14. L. Doering, First Peter as Early Christian Diaspora Letter (2003)Johnannine Epistles15. J. Painter, The Importance of the Johannine Epistles within the Catholic Epistles (2002)Jude16. J. Frey, The Epistle of Jude between Judaism and Hellenism (2002)17. S. Hafemann, God's Salvation ""Once and for All"" in Jude 5 and the Covenant Argumentation of 2 Peter 1:3-11: Confirming One's Election in the CE (2005)Conclusion: A Prospective18. E. Baasland, Prolegomenon to a History of the ""Post-apostolic era"" (Early Christianity 70-150 CE): Challenging Current and Future Scholarship (2005)