Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at Corinth

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ROBERT M. GRANT, Paul in the roman world: The conflict at corinth (Louisville/ London/Leiden: Westminster John Knox, 2001). Pp. ix + 181. Paper $19.95.

Roben Grant is the Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus of Humanities and of NT and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago and the Divinity School. His bookdemonstrates how Paul's ideas differed from the first-century culture while assimilating much of it. In Grant's own words, "The church's ideas partly replaced and partly assimilated those of the Greco-Roman world. The purpose of this study has been to see both replacement and ...

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