Download or read book The Pauline Churches written by Margaret Y. MacDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephesians and Colossians, writings which are characteristic of the ambiguous period following the disappearance of the earliest authorities.