There are therefore many members, but one body: a brief analysis of the Pauline program of the Kingdom of God

This article aims to light the concept of patronage (Wallace-Hadrill) reflect on the project of Pauline Kingdom of God, which is the ideological levels showed equal and opposite to the Roman Empire. But when we turn to the organization of the Corinthian community is that there is a hierarchical society from the gifts of the Spirit. This hierarchy that we turn to reflection of how far this alternative society - as an alternative to his stance against the Roman Empire Pauline for Roman society. In this sense, we analyze more specifically the fragment 1Cor 12:27-31. This passage allows evoke all these issues and still lead us to the debate about the tensions in the community.