What are the 13 letters of paul

Paul, Apostle of Christ

The Gospels are certainly the most important of the New Testament writings, but they were not the first to be composed.

How many books did paul wrote in the bible

As early as the year A.D. 50, some young communities of former Gentiles were receiving Letters from an “apostle,” namely, Paul, who had not belonged to the Twelve or to the circle around Jesus. Of the great figures of newborn Christianity, this “first Christian author” is the most remarkable one known to us, and he remains such through the testimony he has left us in his writings.

Chronological Order of the Letters

Modern criticism has come to the following conclusions in this area.

A first series of Letters was written at intervals during the fifties and sixties; there is practically no one who doubts that Paul was their author.

—1 and 2 Thessalonians: The first two Christian writings that have come down to us.

They were surely written in Corinth between A.D. 50 and 52, in order to encourage a recently founded community and to clarif