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Although Corinth was an ancient Greek city, it had been totally destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC, and the site lay unused for about a hundred years. It was then rebuilt by Julius Caesar as a Roman city and became the seat of government of the Roman province of Achaia. Like most major cities of the ancient world it contained a considerable number of Jews. It was among these that Paul, in...

other terms to describe the anxieties that come to us, not from the general human situation but because we try to live as Christians. We do good and our goodness is ascribed to an attempt to curry popularity. We are profoundly perplexed when we try to apply Christianity to the terrifying problems of modern society: Is unemployment worse than inflation? Does the possession of nuclear weapons endanger or preserve society? We are frustrated in our attempts to carry out some reform in an organization
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