Varsy Arsy–Proclaiming the Gospel in Second Corinthians

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Varsy Arsy–Proclaiming the Gospel in Second Corinthians

...in our own day the Christian faith has again been blunted and inflamed by the forces of worldly success and academics.

412 pgs. Varsy Arsy is volume two of Ross's examination of Paul's letters to the Corinthians. The Corinthian church had been captured by a false teaching that brought it wealth, success and influence. Oddly, the false, Gnostic spirituality being taught was based on popular, Greek wisdom and had produced worldly success. But Paul saw through the charade and called the Corinthians back to ordinary faithfulness that stood in opposition to the false wisdom of Greek culture issuing from the academy. What the successful Corinthians called wisdom, Paul called foolishness.

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About the Book

Unfortunately, in our own day the Christian faith has again been blunted and inflamed by the forces of worldly success and academics. Seeing the gospel rightly—in the light of Christ—requires an adjustment of our expectations. And that adjustment can still turn this fallen world upside down.

People today know that something is very wrong in our contemporary world, that history and Christianity have taken a wrong turn somewhere, that our current culture, lifestyles and values are fundamentally unsustainable. People know it and the market knows it.

Ross takes a presuppositional approach to this study of Corinthians, which is different from the usual evidential approach in that it assumes that faithfulness requires a completely different mindset than unfaithfulness, that what is usually thought to be an intellectual common ground between believers and unbelievers isn’t common at all.

The integration of trinitarian categories regarding human nature as a genuine reflection of God’s trinitarian image reveals important subtleties in the biblical text, yields richer accounts, more diverse applications and a more complete integration of spiritual gifts regarding both the lives of individual Christians and the biblical structure Christ gave to the church.

Details
Author: Phillip A. Ross
Genre: Bible Study
Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Books
Publication Year: 2008
Format: 6 X 9
Length: 412 pgs.
ASIN: 0982038542
ISBN: 9780982038543
List Price: $14.95 ($4.99 - Kindle)
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