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Salvation and Cosmology: The Setting of the Epistle to the Colossians1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

R. S. Barbour
R. S. Barbour
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Edinburgh
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In examining the great themes of the Epistle to the Colossians we must ask both what they meant in that ancient world of Asia Minor, so cultured and so superstitious, for which the Epistle was written and what they mean for us today. We must sketch in the background of the Epistle in general terms; then we must turn to the text itself, and finally attempt to expound its meaning in terms comprehensible today. Sometimes it may be permissible to take a glance at the background and seek some lines along which to interpret it before we turn to the text itself. That is the object of this paper.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1967 , pp. 257 - 271
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1967

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page 263 note 1 ‘Creatio ex Nihilo’, in The Framework of the New Testament Stories, pp. 202–204.Google Scholar

page 263 note 2 We must not make the mistake of supposing that the ancients all thought the earth was flat; see, e.g., Grant, F. C., Roman Hellenism and the New Testament, pp. 47–48.Google Scholar

page 266 note 1 In Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, ed. A. E. J. Rawlinson.

page 269 note 1 For this use of the quotation and for some of the following material I owe a debt to ProfessorDantine, W., ‘Creation and Redemption’, Scottish Journal of Theology, 18 (1965), pp. 133ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar