By What Authority?- Authority?

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The Library Edition is a hardcover edition. Each volume is separated into its own hardcover book.By What Authority? is a five-volume scholarly argument that Paul's letters in the canonical New Testament were selectively edited in the second century. Every identified edit moves Paul in the same direction: toward law-continuity, covenant affirmation, institutional hierarchy, and submission to authority. The edits are not random. They are directional.The argument rests on five independent lines of evidence: structural ruptures in Paul's Greek text, writing-style anomalies identified by mainstream scholars working without any Marcionite agenda, Marcion's second-century canon as hostile-witness confirmation, manuscript instability at precisely the contested passages, and the institutional motive that makes each addition load-bearing. Each line can be checked independently.Companion B - The Reconstructed Pauline Letters presents the seven authentic Pauline letters as they read once the passages identified as secondary are set aside. It is a reading text, not a scholarly edition. There are no footnotes interrupting the flow. The evidence behind every excision is in Companion A; this companion lets you read the result.The letters are presented in Apostolikon order - the order Marcion's canon used, which predates the canonical ordering: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Laodiceans (Ephesians), Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, and Philemon. Removed passages are marked inline so readers can see exactly what has been taken out.What emerges when the reconstruction is read continuously is not a deficient Paul but a more internally coherent one. The governing-authorities passage is gone. The household codes are gone. The Abraham apparatus in Romans is gone. The Israel chapters in Romans 9-11 are gone. What remains is the Paul of grace without condition: a God not previously known, grace as a different governing logic, faith as reception rather than performance, and an ethic that dissolves the social hierarchies the Creator's world depends on.The companion closes with a synthesis - "The Teaching of Paul" - that reads the reconstructed corpus as a coherent system of thought. It does not interpret. It reads. The system that emerges is coherent, radical, and markedly different from the orthodoxy the received text was edited to support.Series: By What Authority? - Companion B. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0. No institution. No publisher. Freely shared.

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Pages: 108, Edition: Library ed., Hardcover, Chrestos