Paul and the competing mission in Corinth / Michael D. Goulder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goulder, Michael D.

Series:

Library of Pauline studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Corinthians--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Corinthians.

Corinth (Greece)--Church history.

Corinth (Greece).

Physical Description:

xiv, 303 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

Most of Paul's letters were written in the context of conflict with trouble-making opponents, but scholars disagree as to who those opponents were. Years ago F. C. Baur suggested that two competing missions -- one headed by Paul, the other by James, Peter, and John -- sent out a series of emissaries to win converts to the Christian faith. In Paul and the Competing Mission in Corinth Michael Goulder has examined Paul's conflict with the counter-missionaries, especially as reflected in the Corinthian Letters, and has put a new spin on Baur's theory. In this book, which is the culmination of decades of work, Goulder has painted a simple and convincing picture of the relationship between the mission of Paul and that of the counter-missionaries, whom he identifies as those evangelists sent by the "pillars" in Jerusalem. Goulder presents carefully assembled evidence in order to advance our picture of the early church and Paul's place in it. His two-missions hypothesis amounts to a comprehensive theory of the origins of Christianity and the New Testament.

Contents:

Gods ascending

Cephas in 1 Corinthians

Cephas in 2 Corinthians

Wisdom and Torah in 1 Corinthians 1

Wisdom and Torah in 1 Corinthians 2-16

The old covenant

Knowledge and vision

Libertines?

Women and ascesis

Sex and God

Idol sacrifices : 1

Idol sacrifices : 2

"No resurrection of the dead"

Another Jesus : 1

Another Jesus : 2

A scenario of the Corinthian church, 50-56 C.E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-285) and indexes.

ISBN:

1565633792

OCLC:

48561843