d Hellenes in Turkey and Greece--and Rome as well, eventually--is reflected in the letters of scripture that are attributed to his authorship: Romans, Corinthians, Ephesians, Colossians, Galatians, Thessalonians, Hebrews. His determination to achieve unity among the adherents of the new sect can be discerned throughout those letters. In that regard, Joseph Campbell characterizes Paul career as Christianity's first "organization man," who, "in turning from Pharisee to Christian, [] simply transferred his temperament to the other side of the line and that the Christian Church that he founded thus inherited and carried into Europe the stamp of his Levantine regard for the monolithic consensus" (Campbell 379).
The need and program for consensus of spiritual community are set forth in 1 and 2 Corinthians, which, though not written as a unit, nevertheless articulate a specific idea of the structure that the community should assume and adhere to. According to Campbell, the big picture of that idea is embedded in 1 Cor. 11, which has implications for ecclesial i
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