2 Corinthians 1-2, pt.1
Above all, though, we will pay close attention to how and why Paul’s experience of the resurrected Jesus led him to be such an effective evangelist.
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Paul
2 Corinthians – Introduction
This year we will be reading through 2 Corinthians. The study this summer will be led by Rob Donahue. Rob is a native of Grace Church in Charleston and is a rising third-year seminary student at Sewanee.
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Looking Through the Cross – The Cross and Identity, pt.1
If we simply identify as “Christian” as a way of separating ourselves over and against the “ungodly” then, although our identity has changed, the nature of our identity as a means of exclusion remains. Unlike other identities, to identify as Christian means to identify with those who aren’t.
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Looking Through the Cross – The Cross and Wisdom, pt.2
As a foretaste of the following chapters, begin to think through how the great political issues of today look different through the lens of the cross.
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1 Corinthians 15:29-16:24
A surface reading of this verse leads to the interpretation that 1) members of the Corinthian congregation were being vicariously baptized for the benefit of those who had already died and 2) Paul has no objection to the practice.
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1 Corinthians 14, pt.2
These verses, at least in the modern context, challenge us in the use of proof-texting Scripture. Taking a particular verse of Scripture in which to build a position can be dangerous.
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1 Corinthians 14, pt.1
The overall principle that Paul desires is a mature, edifying, decent, and orderly worship.
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1 Corinthians 13, pt.2
Beginnning in Chapter 11, Paul argues that divisions are overcome by discerning the body of Christ within the Eucharist and the Church. In this way, we realize that divisions are not based upon Christ but secondary issues. We make this discovery through the recognition of the primacy of love in Chapter 13.
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1 Corinthians 13, pt.1
Since Jesus commands us to love our enemies, how must be apply the love described in verses 4-7 to that person?
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1 Corinthians 12, pt.2
Like Plato’s Republic, within this chapter, Paul is providing us with a different type of community with Jesus as Lord and each of us performing a specific function or office within this new unified undivided community.
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