Notes
Notes Chapter 1: The Ambiguity of the Church 1John Newton, quoted by J. C. Ryle in the chapter "Are You Regenerate?" in Home
Truths, 9th ed. (London: Chas. J. Thynne, n.d.), pp. 94-95.
2Anthony Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Greek
Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000), p. 74.
3John Chrysostom Homilies on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1.2.7.
4C. K. Barrett, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Black's New Testament Commentaries, 2nd ed. (London: A. & C. Black, 1971), p. 46.
5Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1987), p. 61.
6Charles H. Hodge, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, 6th ed. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1959), p. 14.
Chapter 2: Power Through Weakness 1Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1987), p. 75.
2Archibald Robertson and Alfred Plummer, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, International Critical Commentary
(London: T & T Clark, 1911), p. 16.
3Ben Witherington III, Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995), p. 109.
4Fee, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 75.
5Cicero In Defense of Rabirius 5.16.
6The Guardian, August 3, 1979.
7Anthony Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Greek
Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000), p. 120.
8See F. F. Bruce's comment on verse 26 in his 1 and 2 Corinthians, New Century Bible
(London: Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1971), p. 36.
Basic Christian Leadership 9Martin Luther, quoted by Karl Barth in The Epistle to the Romans, trans. from the 6th ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), p. 42.
10China's Millions 1, no. 5 (1875): 55.
11C. C. Black, quoted in Witherington, Conflict and Community in Corinth, p. xiii.
For more material on rhetoric in the ancient world, see Donald Carson, Douglas Moo and Leon Morris, eds., An Introduction to the New Testament (Grand Rapids,
Mich.: Zondervan, 1992), pp. 281-82; G. A. Kennedy, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World 300 B.C.—300 A.D. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
1972); A. Duane Litfin, St. Paul's Theology of Proclamation: An Investigation of 1 Cor.
1—4 in the Light of Greco-Roman Rhetoric (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), especially pp. 296ff.; and Bruce Winter, "Rhetoric," in Dictionary of Paul and his Letters, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin and Daniel G. Reid
(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993), pp. 821-22.
12Witherington, Conflict and Community in Corinth, p. 40.
13Ibid., pp. 40-42.
14Ibid., p. 42.
15Ibid.
16See Thiselton, First Epistle to the Corinthians, pp. 14-15.
17Donald A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry: An Exposition of Passages from 1 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1993), p. 34.
18Thiselton, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 208.
19The exact quotation is in The Acts of Paul and Thecla, which may be found in E.
Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2 (London: Lutterworth, 1963), pp.
353-54.
20Fee, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 95.
21See Lewis Drummond's biography Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, 1992), especially pp. 177, 213.
Chapter 3: Holy Spirit and Holy Scripture 1Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1987), pp. 102-5.
2Donald A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry: An Exposition of Passages from 1 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1993), p. 47.
3C. K. Barrett, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Black's New Testament Commentaries, 2nd ed. (London: A. & C. Black, 1971), p. 69.
4F. F. Bruce, 1 and 2 Corinthians, New Century Bible (London: Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1971), p. 38.
Notes
5Anthony Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Greek
Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000), p. 257.
6Quoted by J. C. Ryle in Christian Leaders of England in the Eighteenth Century (London: Chas. J. Thynne, n.d.), p. 111.
Chapter 4: The Church and the Trinity 1Donald A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry: An Exposition of Passages from 1 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1993), pp. 71, 75.
2I owe this information to Keith Buckler, who was kind enough to write to me during the Keswick Convention in July 2001.
3C. K. Barrett, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Black's New Testament Commentaries, 2nd ed. (London: A. & C. Black, 1971), p. 80.
4Charles H. Hodge, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, 6th ed. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1959), p. 49.
5Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1987), p. 125.
6J. B. Lightfoot, Notes on Epistles of St. Paul (London: Macmillan, 1895), p. 187.
7Barrett, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 87.
8Thomas Charles Edwards, A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians (London: Hamilton, Adams, 1885), p. 81.
Chapter 5: Models of Ministry 1Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (London: Pan Books, 1968), p.
347.
2George Carey, Canterbury Letters to the Future (London: Kingsway, 1998), p. 121.
3Archibald Robertson and Alfred Plummer, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, International Critical Commentary
(London: T & T Clark, 1911), p. 74.
4Anthony Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, New International Greek
Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000), p. 335.
5Robertson and Plummer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary, p. 81.
6F. D. Coggan, Stewards of Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), pp. 46, 48.
7Robertson and Plummer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary, p. 84. Cf. C. K. Barrett, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Black's New Testament Commentaries, 2nd ed. (London: A. & C. Black, 1971), p. 109.
8G. G. Findlay, St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, Expositor's Greek Testament,
2nd ed., vol. 2 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1901), p. 803.
Basic Christian Leadership 9Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (London: SCM Press, 1959), p. 74.
10Ben Witherington III, Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995), p. 8.
11Thiselton, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 370.
12Robertson and Plummer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary, p. 90.
13Thiselton, First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 376.
Conclusion: Christ or Culture?
1James Stalker, The Preacher and His Models (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891), p. 231.