Talk:Philemon (New Testament person)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality.

An appropriate infobox may need to be added to this article, or the current infobox may need to be updated. Please refer to the list of biography infoboxes for further information.

	Philemon (New Testament person) is part of the WikiProject Saints, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Saints and other individuals commemorated in Christian liturgical calendars on Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to saints as well as those not so affiliated, country and region-specific topics, and anything else related to saints. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.	Saints Portal
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
	This article may need an appropriate infobox template.

I'll come back to this later - but this is a very problematic article. 1) Philemon of the letter to Philemon may not have been from Colossae. There is nothing in the letter to say he was. It is only from the letter to the Colossians that we gleem that, and the authenticity of that letter is debatable. There is all sorts of speculation, and anachronism here posing as facts. Fact is nothing is known of Philemon other than the sketch details of the letter, all of which are open to various interpretations. Roman Catholic tradition has a lot of hagiography, and it is fair for the article to comment on that, but it is generally accepted as being a very dubious historical source. There are also weasle words here 'It is not plain whether he was ordained or not.' Better saying, there is 'the leter gives us absolutely no reason to believe he was ordained' --Doc ^ask? 09:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)