1 Corinthians

Volume 7, IVP New Testament Commentary Series (blue dust jackets)

By Alan F. Johnson

(hardcover)

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Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 343 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Binding: hardcover
Published: July 2004

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1807-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1807-5
IVP Order Code: 1807

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Commentaries--New Testament

Upwardly mobile Christians facing radically diverse ethnic, religious, economic and social conditions. The church divided over issues of leadership and authority, sexual morality, gender and worship, marriage and divorce. Sound familiar?

First-century Corinth and its challenges were not so different from our own. Yet in the midst of this detailed, practical letter to a church in crisis is found one of the greatest paeans to love ever written. And, of course, love is just what is needed to address complex human issues--whether in the first century or the twenty-first.

Alan F. Johnson's deft analysis of 1 Corinthians features an introduction that explores the social, cultural and historical background of the city and its people. Rounding out the introduction, Johnson discusses the letter's occasion and date, authorship and purpose, and major theologicall themes. His passage-by-passage commentary follows, seeking to explain what the letter of 1 Corinthians means for the church today as well as what it meant for its original hearers.

Students, pastors, Bible teachers and everyone who wants to understand Paul's message for the church will benefit from this excellent resource.

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