Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church

by Horrell, David G.

• ISBN13: 9780664224783
• ISBN10: 0664224784
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	viii
Abbreviations of Nonbiblical Texts Referred to in Main Text and Footnotes	xi
Contributors	xv
Illustrations	xvi
Preface	xvii
Frequently Cited Works	xix
Introduction	1	(50)
The Scholarly Quest for Paul's Church at Corinth: A Critical Survey
David G. Horrell and Edward Adams
PART I Extracts from the History of Scholarship on Christianity at Corinth
1 The Two Epistles to the Corinthians (1845; ET 1873)	51	(10)
Ferdinand Christian Baur
2 The Church without Factions: Studies in I Corinthians 1-4 (1952; ET 1959)	61	(10)
Johannes Munck
3 The Corinthian Christology (1956; ET 1971)	71	(8)
Walter Schmithals
4 Christianity at Corinth (1964)	79	(6)
C.K. Barrett
5 Paul and the Church at Corinth (1967)	85	(12)
Nils A. Dahl
6 Social Stratification in the Corinthian Community: A Contribution to the Sociology of Early Hellenistic Christianity (1974; ET 1982)	97	(10)
Gerd Theissen
7 Realized Eschatology at Corinth (1978)	107	(12)
Anthony C. Thiselton
8 Gnosis in Corinth: I Corinthians 8.1-6 (1981)	119	(10)
Richard A. Horsley
9 House-Churches and the Eucharist (2002; first published 1983)	129	(10)
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
10 Discord in Corinth: First Corinthians 1-4 and Ancient Politics (1997; first published 1987)	139	(6)
Laurence L. Welborn
11 Rhetorical Situation and Historical Reconstruction in 1 Corinthians (1987)	145	(16)
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
12 Women Holy in Body and Spirit: The Social Setting of 1 Corinthians 7 (1990)	161	(12)
Margaret Y. MacDonald
13 Σomicronφια in 1 Corinthians (1991)	173	(10)
Michael D. Goulder
14 Thessalonica and Corinth: Social Contrasts in Pauline Christianity (1992)	183	(14)
John M.G. Barclay
15 The Rich Patron (1992)	197	(10)
John K. Chow
16 Stoicism, EXEUBEpia and Community at Corinth (1992)	207	(12)
Terence Paige
17 The Social Status of Erastus (Rom. 16:23) (1996)	219	(8)
Justin J. Meggitt
18 1 Corinthians: A Case Study of Paul's Assembly as an Alternative Society (1997)	227	(14)
Richard A. Horsley
PART II Methodological Reflections
19 Sources: Use, Abuse, Neglect. The Importance of Ancient Popular Culture	241	(14)
Justin J. Meggitt
20 The Methods of Historical Reconstruction in the Scholarly 'Recovery' of Corinthian Christianity	255	(18)
Bengt Holmberg
21 The Shifting Centre: Ideology and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians	273	(22)
Margaret Y. MacDonald
22 Reconstructions of Corinthian Christianity and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians	295	(16)
James D.G. Dunn
Index of Ancient Sources	311	(11)
Index of Subjects and Modern Authors	322