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Student Number: 970429865 "Ritual Prostitution, a problem for early Church." Discuss The act of ritual prostitution was commonly identified with the church at Corinth. Corinth during the lifetime of Paul was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. It served as a commercial bridge between the East and West, attracting immigrants, merchants, traders and visitors from all areas around the Mediterranean Sea. The inhabitants, coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, retained many social customs and religious beliefs and practices peculiar to their places of origin. Corinthians were also notorious for their love of pleasures and lax morals. Consequently, the church at Corinth was exposed to a bewildering variety of customs and beliefs and to a corrosive atmosphere of public immorality, all of which encouraged a lack of moral discipline and divisiveness in the predominantly Gentile Christian community. The Christians at Corinth produced highly divergent interpretations of what the Gospel demanded...

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