The Paradoxical Wisdom of God Revealed in the Crucified Christ

Abstract

Starting from 1 Cor 1:17ff, where Paul speaks of the paradoxical divine wisdom of the Crucified Christ as the power of God that the apostle sees realised in the proclamation of the kerygma, the article reviews how Paul applies this both to the situation Christians of Corinth find themselves in (1 Cor 1:24-25) and to his own experience as apostle (1 Cor 2:1-5). He aims to show how this can have a bearing on the methodology issues that arise regarding the relationship between professor and students in teaching and learning.