this misidentification of faith with Hellenistic wisdom fomented a certain arrogance and elitism, distorting the very self-effacement and humility that Jesus had demonstrated in going to the cross that marked the central way of salvation for Christians. Most commentaries on 1 Corinthians tend to emphasize the essential tension between faith and philosophy as comparable to the familiar dialectic between an esoteric knowledge that “puffs up,” as Paul puts it in chapter 13, and the agapē love shown