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In a penetrating analysis of Paul’s responses to the various crises within the Corinthian congregation, Ralph Martin gives new insight into the particular problems of Christianity as expressed in the hedonistic, cosmopolitan setting of Corinth. He shows how Paul’s attempt to redefine the gospel in terms that clearly distinguish it from Hellenistic Jewish Christian ideology results in a moving...

of God” (δικαιοσύνη τοῦ θεοῦ) not so much an individual quality available to faith as a gift (so Bultmann, 167; cf. his Theology 1:270–87, and his article “ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ ΘΕΟΥ,” JBL 83 [1964] 12–16; Conzelmann, Outline, 214–20) as a technical term for the eschatological act of God in power by which the world is set right with the divine purpose (so P. Stuhlmacher, Gottesgerechtigkeit, following E. Käsemann, in New Testament Questions of Today, 168–82. See the summaries in M. T. Brauch, “Perspectives,”
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