The Pauline Community

Otherwise known as the Church.

In any case, the only reason anyone ever argues that Saint Paul did not personally write anything up to six of his 13 Epistles is because, for reasons entirely of their own, they happen to dislike what those Epistles have to say. That is how Biblical criticism works: it begins with the presuppositions of liberal theology, which itself begins with the presuppositions of the sort of pre-Postmodern secular humanism that is now at least a generation out of date, and then it meticulously constructs itself in order to "prove" them.

Even by the standards of these things, what a staggeringly biased series The Bible: A History has been, with only Ann Widdecombe really bothering to engage with anyone who might radically disagree with the presenter's own position, in the process showing up Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens for what they are. Even the well-meaning among the rest have been content to fawn over whatever highly politicised examples of the dated and the cranky Channel Four has lined up for them to present to the viewing public as if they were authoritative or even particularly serious.