1-2 Corinthians (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament, Vol VII)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Paul's letters to the Corinthian church have left a mark on Christian Scripture in a way that could never have been predicted. Here the pastoral issues of a first-century Christian community in what Chrysostom identified as "still the first city in Greece" stand out in bold relief. How was a community shaped by the cross to find its expression in a city that Chrysostom knew to be "full of orators and philosophers" and that "prided itself . . . above all on its great wealth"? How was church unity to be maintained in a setting where prominent believers, bend...
ISBN(s)
0830824928, 9780830824922
