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FIRST CORINTHIANS (Sacra Pagina Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 227.2077
EAN: 9780814659700
ISBN: 0814659705
Label: Liturgical Press
Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 703
Publication Date: 2007-06
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Studio: Liturgical Press
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One of the most exciting of Pauls letters, First Corinthians offers a vantage point from which modern readers can reflect on the diversity in Christian Churches today. In First Corinthians, Raymond Collins explores that vantage point as well as the challenge Paul posed to the people of his timeand continues to pose in oursto allow the gospel message to engage them in their daily lives.
Paul introduces us to a flesh-and-blood community whose humanness was all too apparent. Sex, death, and money were among the issues they had to face. Social conflicts and tension within their Christian community were part of their daily lives. Paul uses all of his diplomacy, rhetorical skill, and authority to exhort the Corinthian community to be as one in Christ.
In examining Pauls message and method, Collins approaches First Corinthians as a Hellenistic letter written to people dealing with real issues in the Hellenistic world. He cites existing Hellenistic letters to show that Paul was truly a letter writer of his own times. Collins makes frequent references to the writings of the philosophic moralists to help clarify the way in which Paul spoke to his beloved Corinthians. He also comments on some aspects of the social circumstances that shaped the Christians of Corinth.
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The Sacra Pagina series of New Testament commentarys are worthwhile books to have on any religious practitioner's bookshelf.
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Written by biblical scholar Raymond F. Collins and edited by Daniel J. Harrington S.J., First Corinthians is seventh in the Sacra Pagina series of fresh translations and modern expositions of the books of the New Testament. In addition to the translated text itself, First Corinthians is packed cover to cover with methodological perspectives, background information, interpretations, sources for reference and further study, and much more. Written for intermediate to advanced bible studies students, ... Read More
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