1 Corinthians /
First Corinthians
Richard A. Horsley.
- Nashville : Abingdon Press, c1998.
- 240 p. ; 23 cm.
- Abingdon New Testament commentaries .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
This commentary highlights both the socio-political context of 1 Corinthians and the clash of significantly different religious viewpoints represented by Paul and the congregation he had founded in Corinth. In particular, Richard Horsley shows that this letter provides a window through which one may view the tension between the Corinthians' interest in cultivating individual spirituality and the apostle's concern for building up a social-religious community devoted to the common advantage, for the flourishing both of personal dignity and a humanizing solidarity.