Download or read book Reading the Corinthian Correspondence written by Kevin Quast and published by ARPress. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Corinthian Correspondence is a clear and concise introduction to the two letters Paul wrote to Corinth, a community plagued by internal divisions, social and ethnic distinctions, and diversity of congregations. Kevin Quast begins this study with an overview of Paul's life, influences, and missionary career. The author then moves to a vivid description of the city of Corinth and the church there. He devotes the next twelve chapters to an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph treatment of 1 and 2 Corinthians. Within these chapters, Dr. Quast deals with the wide variety of issues that Paul addressed - including private and public relationships, matters of worship, resurrection, and the nature of true Christian ministry. In the two concluding chapters, he offers invaluable insights into both the literary aspects and prevading themes that characterize the letters of Paul. Ever mindful of his modern readers, the author bridges the first century and today with penetrating commentary, provocative questions, and substantive summary charts. Kevin Quast is Academic Vice President of Taylor University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For twelve years, he was professor of New Testament at Ontario Theological Seminary (now Tyndale Seminary), where he continues as an associate professor of New Testament. He is author of Peter and the Beloved Disciple: Figures for a Community in Crisis (1989) and Reading the Gospel of John: An Introduction (1991), as well as numerous academic and popular articles.
Download or read book The Corinthian Correspondence written by Russell P. Spittler and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corinthian Correspondence written by Frank W. Hughes and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that the Apostle Paul wrote eight letters to the church in Corinth, and that those letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians. This analysis, using redaction and rhetorical criticism, provides many insights into Paul's difficult relationship with the Corinthians.
Download or read book The Corinthian Correspondence written by Frank W. Hughes and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2021 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that the Apostle Paul wrote eight letters to the church in Corinth, and that those letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians. This analysis, using redaction and rhetorical criticism, provides many insights into Paul's difficult relationship with the Corinthians.
Download or read book The Corinthian Correspondence written by Helen Doohan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corinthian correspondence and the community it reflects are exciting and exasperating, interesting and complex. The letters offer us a window of opportunity to view Paul's personal and pastoral presence in his growing relationship with this church. Struggling with his own history, the history of the community, and the newness of the Gospel he preaches, Paul identifies an approach that balances tradition and innovation, theological foundations and principles of action. The passion, persuasion, and purpose of the apostle permeate these letters, and no one is unaware that the Lord Jesus is the center of his Gospel message and of his life. Paul offers insight into the commitment of early apostles, disciples, and ministers in the Corinthian community. He personally experiences the dying and rising of Christ in his work with this community, giving a ring of truth to his own assessment of Christian life and ministry. Only faith transforms adversity into an opportunity for growth, and Paul's faith and perseverance offer hope to those of us who continue to experience the paradoxes of Christian life and ministry.
Download or read book Christianity at Corinth written by Edward Adams and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Corinthians provides a unique glimpse info the life of a young Christian community in a Greco-Roman environment during the early decades of emerging Christianity. It supplies a range and richness of information about the early church that is unparalleled by any other New Testament document. Much effort has gone into reconstructing Christianity at Corinth; more recently, attention has focused on the Corinthian community itself. The scholarly picture of the Corinthian Christians throughout the period of modern interpretation has been far from constant, and their profile has altered as interpretive fashions have shifted. This collection of classic and new essays charts the history of the scholarly quest for the Corinthian church from F. C. Baur to the present day, and offers the reflections of leading scholars on where the quest has taken us and its future direction.
Download or read book A Week in the Life of Corinth written by Ben Witherington III and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of historical fiction, Ben Witherington III provides a one of kind window into the social and cultural context of Paul's ministry.
Download or read book Unity of Corinthian Correspondence written by David R. Hall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Unity of the Corinthian Correspondence, David Hall argues that 1 and 2 Corinthians are closely related. In both letters, Paul faces the same opponents, referring to them in the same disguised, indirect way in both 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians 19 before confronting them directly in 2 Corinthians 1013. Furthermore, many passages in 2 Corinthians echo the teaching of 1 Corinthians, while others refer to the Corinthian reaction to the first letter. Hall therefore maintains that modern attempts to regard 1 and 2 Corinthians as a mosaic of fragments are based on a flawed methodology that fail to appreciate Pauls pastoral teaching.
Download or read book When You Were Gentiles written by Cavan W. Concannon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul’s letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the ancient Corinthians with whom Paul conversed, argued, debated, and partnered, focusing on issues of ethnicity, civic identity, politics, and empire. In doing so, the author provides readers a unique opportunity to assess anew, and imagine possibilities beyond, Paul’s complicated legacy in shaping Western notions of race, ethnicity, and religion.
Download or read book Paul and His Rivals written by Clair Mesick and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Paul's Corinthian correspondence is a historical puzzle. How did the relative calm of 1 Corinthians deteriorate into the chaos of 2 Corinthians, and what role did the so-called Jewish "super-apostles" play in that conflict? This book proposes a new solution: it was Paul, not his rivals, who shot the first volley in the Corinthian conflict. Paul's claims of unique authority--for instance, as the architect atop whose foundation all others must build (1 Cor 3:10) and the Corinthians' father while others are mere pedagogues (4:15)--would relegate other leaders to lesser positions. His contention that accepting financial support put an obstacle before the gospel (9:12) would jeopardize the livelihood of apostles who relied on such support. Finally, Paul's claim that he becomes "lawless to the lawless" (9:21) or that "circumcision is nothing" (7:19) could throw into question Paul's own Jewishness (cf. 2 Cor 11:22). By reading the Corinthian correspondence against the grain--imagining how Paul's letter might have backfired for an audience who did not yet take him as scripture--this book explores how misunderstandings and misinterpretations can fracture church communities and cause a ripple effect of conflict and accusation.
Download or read book Reading 1 Corinthians in the Twenty First Century written by Cornelia Cyss Crocker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Cyss-Wittenstein uses the insights of hermeneutics and other critical methods to offer a new reading of 1 Corinthians.
Download or read book Tradition and Rhetoric in Paul s Correspondence with the Corinthians written by Harm W. Hollander and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays deals with a number of important words and passages in the apostle Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. It clarifies Paul’s ways of defending himself against the attacks of some Corinthian Christians and his attempts to persuade his readers to keep on living according to the law of God. The analyses centre on answering two questions. First, what does Paul take from the ideas that were in vogue in his time, the Graeco-Roman, Hellenistic period? Secondly, what particular twist does he give to these traditional concepts and motifs in order to persuade his readers in Corinth effectively? The analyses produce a number of new and surprising results, and will appeal to New Testament scholars and students, clergymen, and all those interested in the ideas of the apostle Paul and in Christian belief and behaviour.
Download or read book The Corinthian Correspondence written by Reimund Bieringer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award winner Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people. But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, and was very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. With razor-sharp attention to the text, Kenneth Bailey examines the cultural milieu and rhetorical strategies that shaped this pivotal epistle. He discovers the deep layers of the Hebraic prophetic tradition informing Paul's writing, linking the Apostle with the great prophets of the Old Testament. Throughout, Bailey employs his expert knowledge of Near Eastern and Mediterranean culture to deliver to readers a new understanding of Paul and his world. Familiar passages take on a new hue as they are stripped of standard Western interpretations and rendered back into their ancient setting.
Download or read book Paul written by Douglas A. Campbell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career. Enter with Campbell into Paul’s world, relive the story of Paul’s action-packed ministry, and follow the development of Paul’s thought throughout both his physical and his spiritual travels. Ideal for students, individual readers, and study groups, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey dramatically recounts the life of one of early Christianity’s most fascinating figures—and offers powerful insight into his mind and his influential message.
Download or read book Paul the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics written by Margaret M. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how in the Corinthian letters Paul was fashioning the principles that later authors would use to interpret scripture. This engagingly written demonstration of the hermeneutical impact of Paul's correspondence on early Christian exegetes also illustrates a new way to think about the history of reception of biblical texts.
Download or read book Reading Corinthians written by Charles H. Talbert and published by Crossroad Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its predecessor, Reading Luke, this commentary on the First and Second Letters to the Corinthians is designed for the non-specialist: the informed lay person, the college or seminary student, the pastor or lay minister. Talbert finds two things at the heart of the Corinthian letters that demand attention: what is said and how it is said, or the literary method and the theological perspective.
