Richard Bauckham Dr Bauckham, Author of this expository study, is lecturer in theology in the University of Manchester. 2 Corinthians has for a long time seemed to me among the most impressive documents of early Christianity. When I need to remind myself that the Christian message is convincing—still convincing today in spite of our great chronological and cultural distance from its first-century origins—I turn as readily to 2 Corinthians as I do to the gospels, and cannot
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