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After presenting some preliminary questions regarding authorship, date, purpose and unity of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church, Dunn examines the problematic divisions that arose among the believers. He addresses the immense social tensions that erupted between the Church and society; and focuses on the problems arising regarding worship and belief.

1 INTRODUCTION 1 CORINTHIANS IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST to the student of the New Testament. For one thing, as my old teacher William Barclay used to say, it takes the lid off a New Testament church in a way that no other writing does. We begin to see how Christianity established itself and what it meant to be Christian, to be the church in a Mediterranean city in the middle of the first century. It’s a fascinating picture, one very far removed from the ideal of the pure New Testament church which
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