2 Peter
Given Peter's authorship, the date is likely AD 63–67, during Peter's imprisonment in Rome. Major theme in the Second Epistle of Peter: True knowledge versus false knowledge. Though the world disbelieves, deceives and mocks, Christians must maintain apostolic doctrine and an orthodox Christian way of life. We are to grow continually in holiness and virtue and pursue an entrance into “the everlasting kingdom” (1:11) which is to come. Background: Peter apparently wrote his second epistle from Roman imprisonment. The people addressed know the author (1:16) and seem to be Gentiles, former pagans, in territory evangelized by Paul (2:18, 20–22; 3:15, 16). The Church has been infiltrated by gnostic-sounding, antinomian (lit., “against the law”) teachers, who taught that faith saves apart from repentance, works, or virtue. They deny that the Second Coming is a physical, historical event and that morality is irrelevant to salvation. The whole Church is threatened, especially the new converts; at the time of which some had already fallen away.
Title - Thesis | Scroll | Short Description | Synthesis 2nd Temple | Antithesis | Synthesis Apostolic | Synthesis Amoraim | Continent Origin | Southern Worldview | Northern Worldview |
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2 Peter | Scroll 89 | Deification and Virtue | Peter's Second Catholic Epistle | Petrou B' | Didactic | NA | Europe | General Epistle | Catholic Epistle |
Category Reference Guide
Title/Thesis - The name of the book in American English
Synthesis 2nd Temple - The name of the book in order of its presentation other than the Apostles, ranging from 2nd temple Judaism up to the 1st century
Antithesis - The name of the book in another language
Synthesis Apostolic - The identity of the book in order of its presentation according to Tradition in the church after the 3rd century
Synthesis Amoraim - The name of the book in order of its presentation other than the Apostles, ranging from Tannaim up to the 5th century
Continent Origin - Continent from where the Text Type Source comes from
Southern Worldview - Catalog strategy for storing the scrolls include the interpretation. South means Africa or Egypt (Alexandrian) such as LXX. South of Palestine.
Northern Worldview - Catalog strategy for storing the scrolls include the interpretation. North means Asia or Persia (Babylonian) such as Masoretic. North of Palestine.
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Link to some reference to St Peter's godliness (epistle on Theosis)