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Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1–6 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume is an investigation into the leadership structures and dynamics of first-century Roman Corinth. These are compared with the practice of leadership in the Corinthian Christian community which are reflected in 1 Corinthians 1–6, and contrasted with Paul’s own principles of Christian leadership.

This book is a revision of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge in 1991. The work was conducted under the careful supervision of Dr Ernst Bammel with further comments given by the examiners, Professor C. K. Barrett and Mr John Sweet. The initial interest in looking at leadership in the Pauline churches was prompted by a desire to discover those areas in which the biblical text might inform an understanding and practice of leadership in churches today. The research
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