NT010-612 - Paul and Corinthian Christianity (English)

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 6
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Corequisites

NT001 or NT002 or NT003

Exclusions

NT011-508, NT024-612, NT024-712, NT024-812, NT025-612, NT025-712, NT025-812 (if the 1 Corinthians option has been chosen), NT011

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Developing knowledge and understanding of the book/s of 1 (or 1 & 2) Corinthians in the English text

B. Be able to

1. Analyse the ‘introductory’ issues in understanding 1 (or 1 & 2) Corinthians

2. Reflect Critically on the themes and theological teachings of 1 (or 1 & 2) Corinthians

3. Exegete selected passages of the English text of 1 (or 1 & 2) Corinthians

 

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying the teaching of 1 (or 1 & 2) Corinthians to contemporary Christian living and ministry practice

Content

Candidates are required to learn and employ exegetical methods of modern critical scholarship. 

Candidates may not take any unit in which they repeat material completed in another unit. 

  1. The church at Corinth: its foundation, the influences upon its life, and the theological and ethical issues reflected in the Pauline letters.
  2. Exegesis of the English text of 1 Corinthians 1–7, 11–15 (or a comparable block of chapters from 1 and 2 Corinthians)

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

Recommended:

Adams, E. and D. G. Horrell (eds), Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004).

Banks, R., Paul's Idea of Community (Rev. ed.; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994).

Cheng, A. T., Idol Food in Corinth: Jewish Background and Pauline Legacy (Sheffield: SAP, 1999).

Forbes, C. B., Prophecy and Inspired Speech in Early Christianity and its Hellenistic Environment (Tübingen: Mohr, 1995).

Furnish, V. P., The Theology of the First Letter to the Corinthians (Cambridge: CUP, 1999).

Hafemann, S., Suffering and Ministry in the Spirit: Paul’s Defence of his Ministry in 1 Corinthians 2:14–3:3 (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2000).

Welborn, L. L., Politics and Rhetoric in the Corinthians Epistles (Macon, GA: Mercer University, 1996).

Welborn, L. L., Paul, the Fool of Christ (London/New York: T&T Clark, 2005).

Winter, B. W., After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

 

Commentaries:

Collins, R. F., First Corinthians (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1999).

Dunn, J. D. G., 1 Corinthians (Sheffield: Continuum, 2003).

Fee, G. D., The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987).

Garland, D., 1 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003).

Horsley, R. A., 1 Corinthians (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998).

Witherington, B., Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio–Rhetorical Commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

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