Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Welborn, L L | Copyright information

ANDREW D. CLARKE, Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006). Pp. xvii + 188. $35.95.

The republication of Clarke's 1993 study (based on a 1991 Cambridge dissertation) makes available a groundbreaking contribution on the sociohistorical situation underlying 1 Corinthians 1-6. Cs ably demonstrated thesis is that the values and practices of the social elite, who held the colony's civic magi...

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