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	Podcast:		Introduction to New Testament History and Literature - Audio
	Episode:		18 - Arguing With Paul?
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:00:02
	Publish Date:		2009-10-12 08:51:53
	Description:		In the undisputed Pauline epistles, marriage is seen as a way to extirpate sexual desire - neither as a means for procreation nor as the preferred social status. The Pastoral Epistles, written to instruct in the pastoring of churches and appointing of church offices, presents quite un-Pauline attitudes. In the Pastoral Epistles, the church, rather than an ecclesia, becomes a household, a specifically patriarchal structure in which men hold offices and women are not to have authority over them. They present a pro-family, anti-ascetic message in contrast to the Pauline epistles.
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