Griechische Ruinen

Weathered stone columns rise from the ruins of ancient Corinth, their fluted shafts and broken entablature recalling the city where the apostle Paul preached, worked, and planted a church among Jews and Gentiles. The remaining temple architecture evokes the Greco-Roman world of the New Testament, a setting marked by commerce, philosophy, pagan worship, and the public proclamation of the gospel. In biblical context, Corinth became a major center of Paul’s ministry after he left Athens, and the city later received his letters addressing holiness, unity, spiritual gifts, love, resurrection, and the lordship of Christ. This visual setting is well suited for teaching on Acts, Pauline missions, early Christianity, biblical archaeology, and the cultural background of First and Second Corinthians.