The Christian community to which Paul addresses himself is in many ways a reflection of the city in which it lives: Corinth, the most important and prosperous of the Greek cities, a commercial and licentious crossroads where a broad religious and philosophical syncretism reigns.
In this first volume, Professor Sommerville comments on the first seven chapters and shows clearly how the apostle deals with the disorders and practical questions posed to him by referring to the gospel of Christ crucified and not by prescribing a code of moral conduct or by developing a philosophy.
Robert Somerville, after studying theology at Oxford and Paris, was a pastor in the Federation of Evangelical Baptist Churches. For several years, he was president of this Federation. He taught Christian ethics at the Free Faculty of Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur-Seine and directed the Baptist Pastoral School.
ISBN: 9782904407307