Second Epistle of Peter
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The Second Epistle of the Apostle Peter is part of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
The author aims to strengthen Christians in faith, they warn against false teachers and strongly defended the expectation of Christ's return.
Author
In the historical-critical theology is almost unanimously accepted that the specified as a writer in verse 1.1 Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Christ, not the author. The main reasons for this are many stylistic differences from the first Epistle of Peter, that already some Church Fathers, such as Have Eusebius of Caesarea and later discussed John Calvin, a presumed content depending on the Epistle of Jude, and the delayed recording of the deed in the canon (see also below "Important points" ).
Conservative authors counter this, that stylistic differences with so little comparative material and different themes can not be closed mandatory to another author that Jude may be just as well depending on the Letter of Peter and that inclusion in the canon that very reason was because the early church majority but ran out of the apostolic authorship - in contrast to many other also named after Peter writings such as the Gospel of Peter, the acts of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter, whose recording was never in question in the canon.
Receiver
According to 2 Peter 1.12 to 15 EU and 2 Peter 3.1 EU, the letter is addressed to the same receiver as the first letter of Peter, so Christians in various parts of Asia Minor. According to 2 Peter 1.1 EU, the letter addressed to all believers, so to Jewish and Gentile Christians.
Dating
The letter is widely regarded as one of the latest writings of the New Testament and the earliest sometimes dated to the first, only the second half of the 2nd century.
Upon acceptance of " authenticity " (ie Simon Peter as the author ) of the letter shortly before the death of Peter ( 1.14 ) can be dated, so probably around the year 66 This position is, however, as mentioned by almost all theologians rejected and historians, among others, with reference to the fact that the letter assumes all who had known Jesus personally, be already dead (3,4), which is not the in the 60s, so only about 30 years after Jesus' death, may have been the case. The text provides, among other things, a response to the problem to the absence of Christ's parousia dar.
Content
- Author, recipient, Greeting 1:1-2
- Growth of the elect from 1.3 to 21
- Dangers and false teachers from 2.1 to 22
- The Return of Christ 3:1-14
- Schlussermahnungen 3.15 to 18