Loading…

Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright helps us to understand from the beginning of the letter that something unexplained yet terrible had happened. We feel the pain of Paul from the very opening lines, as he confronts dreadful issues of sorrow and hurt, emerging with a clearer picture of what it meant to say that Jesus himself suffered for us and rose in triumph. The letter...

exercise is not to give up having a body altogether. Everybody needs to live somewhere. He combines this with the idea of the body as ‘clothing’. This enables him to say a similar thing from a slightly different angle: the Christian hope for the future is not about becoming disembodied but about being re-embodied. We don’t, as he says, want to turn out to be ‘naked’, a bare spirit or soul without any ‘clothing’. In fact, the hope he expresses in verse 4 is seen in terms of putting more clothes on,
Page 53