Benjamin Schliesser asks the question about the socio-cultural situation of the congregation.Harald Seubert makes it plausible that a number of polemical statements by Paul in the Corinthians refer to phenomena that have close parallels with the Second Sophistics. Jacob Thiessen explains that Paul's in 1. Corinthians 14 criticized the way in which the Corinthians practice "tongue-in-genre" and showed striking parallels to the Dionysus cult. Christian Stettler shows that Paul's speech of the "power" and "foolishness" of God is opposed to cultural standards common in Corinth. Joerg Frey analyses the strategy with which Paul struggles for the unity of the Corinthian congregation in the arguments of the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians and derives recommendations for analogous situations in the Church today.