Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians in Its Greco-Roman Social Setting : Bloomsbury T&T Clark : 9780567057723 : 0567057720 : 01 Dec 2011 : Studies in contemporary social anthropology have noted the importance of male honour and how this is able to generate ideas of social identity within a community and to elucidate patterns of social behaviour. Finney examines the letter of 1 Corinthians, which presents a unique exposâe of numerous aspects of social life in the first-century Greco-Roman world where honour was of central importance. At the same time, filotimia (the love and lust for honour) also had the capacity to generate an environment of competition, antagonism, factionalism, and conflict, all of which are clearly evident within the pages of 1 Corinthians. Finney seeks to examine the extent to which the social constraints of filotimia, and its potential for conflict, lay behind the manyproblems evident within the nascent Christ-movement at Corinth. Finney present