In the Pastoral Epistles, Timothy and Titus, Paul's sons in the faith, are exhorted to

uphold sound doctrine and not to allow their young ecclesias to turn aside after "other teachers".

Though language and idiom may change, the lessons of the Letters are appropriate today as they were for the first Century ecclesias of Ephesus and Crete.

The chapters of this book are interspersed with Essays on a range of topical subjects. Alfred Nicholls draws out a wealth of detail relevant not merely to these to these short Epistles, but to New testament studies generally.