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Cornelia Cyss Crocker uses the insights of hermeneutics and other critical methods to offer a new reading of 1 Corinthians. One of the challenges of reading 1 Corinthians these days is that its style seems foreign to us and many of its passages seem irrelevant to us today. On the other hand, many of the passages have become too familiar, overly authoritative, and too oppressively close for...

and the new tradition of the Lord’s Supper have somehow become intermingled in the Corinthian church and are now being confused and used to separate people based on their socioeconomic standing (chs. 8–11). It also appears that speaking in tongues is highly valued and has likewise led to a hierarchical ranking of the members of the congregation based on their spiritual gifts (chs. 12–14). All these are examples of instances where the specific vocabulary denoting discerning, decision making, and judging
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