This article explores the changes and possibilities for liberal arts education in what has been called the 'Asian Century.' The article represents conceptual research, in that it attempts to offer interpretative and speculative commentary on the state of liberal arts at this time, from the perspective of the Dean of a Faculty of Liberal Arts in an Asian University. At the same time, the article draws on empirical research, including recently published research by the author on the nature of liberal arts in SouthEast Asia. Following a survey of this and other relevant literature, it is proposed that liberal arts faces certain changes at this point of time, which may present opportunities for reinvigoration of the educational approach. These include: the pressures toward economic or utilitarian motivations for education; the evolving places of science and humanities in a general education curriculum; and the controversial place of religion and theology in liberal arts education. While each of these issues presents challenges, it is possible to regard this period of contestation as providing an opportunity for this classic educational approach to find fresh relevance.

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The first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most discussed biblical books in New Testament scholarship today. Despite this, there has been no consensus on its arrangement and central theme, in particular why the topic of the resurrection was left until the end of the letter, and what its theological significance would have been to the Corinthian church. Matthew R. Malcolm analyses this rhetoric of 'reversal', examines the unity of the epistle, and addresses key problems behind particular chapters. He argues that while Jewish and Greco-Roman resources contribute significantly to the overall arrangement of the letter, Paul writes as one whose identity and rhetorical resources of structure and imagery have been transformed by his preaching, or kerygma, of Christ. The study will be of interest to students of New Testament studies, Pauline theology and early Christianity.

Challenges to the hypothesis of over realised eschatology behind 1 Corinthians must be taken into account. However, the broad idea that the Corinthians were behaving as though they could lay claim to eschatological arrival is worthy of renewed consideration. This article argues for a modified version of the hypothesis, using the phrase "premature triumphalism". This conception emphasises the problem as chiefly behavioural rather than doctrinal. Further, the problem is seen to be largely unwitting, being implicit, rather than explicit, in its eschatological claims. It is an issue perceived by Paul, rather than fully by the Corinthians.