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One of the most exciting of Paul’s letters, 1 Corinthians offers a vantage point from which modern readers can reflect on diverseness in Christian Churches today. In First Corinthians, Raymond Collins explores that vantage point as well as the challenge Paul posed to the people of his time—and continues to pose in ours—to allow the gospel message to engage them in their daily lives. Paul...

various gifts that have been given to the community, a discussion that is oriented toward the use of these gifts in the liturgical assembly (ch. 14). Paul’s first words have the form of a captatio benevolentiae designed to elicit the good will of his audience in preparation for the case he is about to make. These words serve as an acknowledgement that the difficult situation Paul hopes to clarify arose from the Corinthians’ naïve adherence to Paul’s teachings and the traditions he had shared with
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