Marshall on the Pastoral Epistles in Recent Study

Readers interested in the Pastoral Epistles might want to check out I. Howard Marshall’s chapter entitled “The Pastoral Epistles in Recent Study” in the recently released Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul’s Theology in the Pastoral Epistles, ed. By A. Köstenberger and T. Wilder. In this chapter, Marshall discusses recent commentaries (269–82), works on the structure of the PE (PP. 282–83), works on the literary approaches to the PE (pp. 284–87), works on pseudepigraphy and the authorship of the PE (pp. 288–92), works on the PE and New Testament theology (pp. 292–94), works on Christology and soteriology in the PE (pp. 294–97), works on the church, ministry, and ethics in the PE (pp. 297–300), works on women in the PE (pp. 300–4), and works on the individuality (treating each epistle independently) of the PE (pp. 304–8). I found these summaries to be helpful and even-handed.