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Pauline Privilege: A Pastoral concern in the South African Catholic Church [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The study aims at initiating a productive dialogue on the issue of Pauline privilege (privilegium Paulinum) in a South African context. Pauline privilege is basically a Roman Catholic church instrument for resolving marriage problems by dissolving ...
Dr. Cyril Arima
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E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2022 At a time when Christian preachers employ all forms of gimmicks to persuade people to give, examining Paul’s model of appeal in the collection for the saints, particularly 2 Corinthians 8:7–12, would prove helpful. Paul avows that he is not commanding
Jones Otisi Kalu , Ezichi A. Ituma
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Resurrection of the Dead as an Element of Factionalism in the Corinthian Church Community
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022 Human tragedy could be summed up a single word—death. One first encounters it through the death of others, and then everyone faces it for themselves. The Christian faith confronts humanity’s final foe head on, delivering sustained hope amidst the sorrow ...
Pop Andrei D.
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Footwashing in the Context of 1 Corinthians 11:23-25: Some Theological Reflections
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2022 There is the tendency to cite Paul’s obvious silence on the rite of foot washing in 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 as evidence of not perpetuating the practice in the Christian Church.
Peter Obeng Manu , Kenneth Oppong
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The Number and Nature of Parties In 1 Corinthians 1-4
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019 The Corinthian church had many issues, among which the dissensions, as can be seen from 1 Corinthians 1-4. There are several theories concerning these dissensions.
Mihăilă Corin
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Tyndale Bulletin, 2004 How significant is 1 Corinthians 1–4 in the epistle as a whole? Paul approaches specifically the problem of food offered to idols in essentially the same manner as he approaches the problem of divisions over leaders.
E. Coye III Still
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 The hermeneutical process underlying Paul’s exegesis of Exodus 17:6 and Numbers 20:7–11 in 1 Corinthians 10:1–4. In this article, Paul’s use of the Old Testament in 1 Corinthians 10:1–4 comes under scrutiny.
Jacobus D.W. de Koning
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Queerer Meals: Paul and Communal Anti-Norms in Corinth [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 This article employs two strategies to understand Paul’s dissatisfaction with the meal practice of the Corinthian assembly in 1 Corinthians 11:17-31. First, it uses a form of queer reading to interrogate the text for its assumptions about normativity and
Eric C. Smith
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The Social Background of 1 Corinthians 1-4
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019 The social structure of the Corinthian ecclesia is a reasonable cause for the dissensions that had occurred between her members. The people from the higher social strata of the church may have sought to advance their honor by desiring to extend their ...
Mihăilă Corin
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The Gnostic and Hellenistic Backgrounds of Sophia in 1 Corinthians 1-4
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019 First Corinthians 1-4 discusses the concept of sophia or wisdom as a central theme. It seems to be both a worldly standard by which the Corinthians judged their teachers and a concept which Paul redefines in light of the cross. Over the last century, two
Mihăilă Corin
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