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The cosmopolitan city of Corinth was the site of one of the apostle Paul’s greatest evangelistic successes. However, the church he founded was full of contention, ranging from questions about leadership to incest. Some Christians were taking fellow believers to court. There were issues concerning marriage, celibacy, food offered to idols, public worship, and spiritual gifts. In response, Paul...

Gnostic or even gnosticizing thought. Gnostic dualism can be adduced to explain the sexual libertinism and the asceticism in the congregation and the denial of the bodily resurrection. Seeing Gnosticism behind the New Testament letters was once a very popular enterprise, but few scholars find the Gnostic theory convincing today. Full-blown Gnosticism was a second-century phenomenon and it should not be read into the New Testament. Nor is it warranted to posit incipient Gnosticism behind what we see
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