The unity of the epistles
Attestation and canonicity
The ecclesiastical situation
Authorship and recipients
The theology of the epistles
Opening salutation (1.1-4)
Instructions to the church leader (1.5-3.11)
The appointment of elders and the danger from opponents (1.5-16)
How believers are to relate to one another (2.1-15)
How believers are to live in society (3.1-11)
Personal instructions (3.12-14)
III. The first letter to Timothy
Opening salutation (1.1-2)
Teachers and church leaders (1.3-3.16)
Instruction to avoid false doctrine (1.3-20)
Instruction on prayer (2.1-15)
Qualifications for overseers and deacons (3.1-13)
The church and the mystery of the faith (3.14-16)
The attitude of the church leader to the church and the groups in it (4.1-6.21a)
Timothy's duties as a teacher in the face of heresy (4.1-16)
The treatment of various groups in the church (5.1-6.2a)
True and false teachers contrasted (6.2b-21a)
Closing greeting (6.21b).
IV. The second letter to Timothy
Timothy as a church leader (1.3-4.8)
The need for Timothy to show courage and to hold fast to the gospel (1.3-18)
Exhortation to be strong and to endure suffering (2.1-13)
The church leader and his opponents (2.14-26)
Ungodliness and the consequent need for faithfulness and truth (3.1-4.8)
Appeal to visit Paul soon
Closing instructions (4.9-18)
Greeting, repetition of appeal to come, and final blessing (4.19-22)
eusebeia in the Pastoral epistles
Overseers and their relation to elders
The sophon word-group and related concepts
The pistis word-group in the Pastoral epistles
Suneidesis in the Pastoral epistles
Goodness and good works in the Pastoral epistles
Household codes and station codes
Christology and the concept of 'epiphany'
Deacons and their relation to overseers
The church in the pastoral epistles.
