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The congregation in Corinth consisted primarily of Gentile Christians who had converted through previous interaction with Paul, yet they profoundly misapplied Christian teachings in general and Paul’s instructions in particular. The Corinthian church faced mounting challenges: divisions and factions, sexual immorality, participation in pagan rituals, controversies over the Lord’s Supper, and...

But it was not merely in threshing out the language and conceptuality of current religiosity through his own mind and heart that the difference between Paul and his contemporaries can be seen. Nowhere is it clearer than in 1 Corinthians that everything within sight or hearing of Paul was bent to a single event, and that for this reason, not for reasons of genius or creativity or ingenuity, everything suffered qualification. The fracture of contemporary religious thought is apparent on almost every
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