Abingdon New Testament Commentary - 1 Corinthians

This commentary highlights both the socio-political context of 1 Corinthians and the clash of significantly different religious viewpoints represented by Paul and the congregation he had founded in Corinth. In particular Richard Horsley shows that this letter provides a window through which one may view the tension between the Corinthians'' interest in cultivating individual spirituality and the apostle''s concern for building up a social-religious community devoted to the common advantage for the flourishing both of personal dignity and a humanizing solidarity.