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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 study examines the nature of local leadership in 1 Corinthians 1–6 using the combined disciplines of social history and New Testament exegesis. Extant epigraphic, numismatic, literary and secondary sources are used to describe the structures of secular leadership within Roman Corinth. The dynamics of leadership used by the élite of Corinthian society are then described. The thesis is that some from that élite Corinthian society also belonged
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