The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence
Subtitle: Interests and Ideology from 1 Corinthians to 1 Clement (Studies of the New Testament and Its World)
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780567085283
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Books of the New Testament; New Testament Commentary; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Reference; Biblical Commentary - New Testament; Bible - Commentaries - New Testament
Description: The work of social theorist Anthony Giddens provides the basis for a critical discussion of current methods employed in sociological studies of the New Testament and for the presentation of a new approach.

The focus of these studies is the Corinthian correspondence, including both the letters written by Paul and the letter known as 1 Clement, sent from Rome to Corinth around the end of the first century. This correspondence provides rich material for a study of the social ethos of early Christian teaching and its development.

It allows an assessment of how Pauline Christianity shapes relationships within the Christian community and how the social ethos of the 'symbolic order' changes as it develops through time in a changing context. Throughout David Horrell also explores where and how the different teachings serve to legitimate or sustain the dominant social order and the interests and positions of the socially powerful.