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The Interaction Between Individual Ethical Conscience and Community Ethical Consciousness in 1 Corinthians

The Interaction Between Individual Ethical Conscience and Community Ethical Consciousness in 1... 1 The Interaction Between Individual Ethical Conscience and Community Ethical Consciousness in 1 Corinthians James A. Davis Introduction "Brothers and sisters, I appeal to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to agree with one another in what you say so there may be no divisions among you and all of you may be united in a common mind and judgment." (1 Cor 1 :10). These words, which are the first to come from the mouth of the apostle after the obligatory epistolary formalities of greeting and thanks- giving have been dealt with, certainly seem to furnish us, as his con- temporary readers, with solid proof of one fact concerning Christian experience in Corinth in the mid to latter half of the sixth decade in the first century of the modern era. And that fact is nothing more or less profound than the observation that these words are occasioned by a significant lack of agreement within the Christian community at Corinth; a lack of agreement which, as an apostle, Paul seeks to remedy in this letter which we have come to designate in the Chris- tian biblical canon as 1 Corinthians. The crucial question, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Horizons in Biblical Theology Brill

The Interaction Between Individual Ethical Conscience and Community Ethical Consciousness in 1 Corinthians

Horizons in Biblical Theology , Volume 10 (1): 18 – Jan 1, 1988

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0195-9085
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1871-2207
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10.1163/187122088X00085
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1 The Interaction Between Individual Ethical Conscience and Community Ethical Consciousness in 1 Corinthians James A. Davis Introduction "Brothers and sisters, I appeal to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to agree with one another in what you say so there may be no divisions among you and all of you may be united in a common mind and judgment." (1 Cor 1 :10). These words, which are the first to come from the mouth of the apostle after the obligatory epistolary formalities of greeting and thanks- giving have been dealt with, certainly seem to furnish us, as his con- temporary readers, with solid proof of one fact concerning Christian experience in Corinth in the mid to latter half of the sixth decade in the first century of the modern era. And that fact is nothing more or less profound than the observation that these words are occasioned by a significant lack of agreement within the Christian community at Corinth; a lack of agreement which, as an apostle, Paul seeks to remedy in this letter which we have come to designate in the Chris- tian biblical canon as 1 Corinthians. The crucial question,

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Horizons in Biblical TheologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1988

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