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I Corinthians: A New Translation, Introduction with a Study of the Life of Paul, Notes, and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians stands as one of the Bible’s greatest masterpieces and certainly one of the greatest contributions to Christian theology. The epistle “to the church which is in Corinth…” addresses itself to the basic tenets of Christian faith as well as down-to-earth matters of moral conduct and standards of Christian living, including such topics as speaking in tongues, the...

them that in their recent pagan life strong impulses led them to the worship of lifeless idols. This, he implies, is not irrelevant to their present life as Christians in the church. The turbulent nature of human emotions, especially when connected with excited religious experiences, may lead to ideas and actions that are in conflict with the received traditions and to excessive reliance upon communal feelings. So expressions of the common life that are attributed to the Spirit must be examined to
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