Christ as Ruler in Col 1,15-20?
The majority of scholars view Col 1,15-20 as a textual unit that stresses Christ's rule over created beings, especially invisible ones, and the church. Closer investigation of the text's diction, however, challenges this hypothesis. By compiling a roster of writers who resort to terms like...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2019]
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| In: |
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2019, Volume: 95, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-62 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Kolosserbrief 1,15-20
/ Jesus Christus
/ Rule
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | The majority of scholars view Col 1,15-20 as a textual unit that stresses Christ's rule over created beings, especially invisible ones, and the church. Closer investigation of the text's diction, however, challenges this hypothesis. By compiling a roster of writers who resort to terms like rule, reign, and Herrschaft in discussion of the hymn's christology, this study first notices the tendency in scholarly contributions of various provenance to speak of Christ's rule in Col 1,15-20. It then peruses the text, highlighting the striking absence of terms for rule and supremacy that would qualify Christ as a ruler and lists examples of Greek terminology for this notion. This yields the following result: aside from the designations thronoi, kyriotētes and archai, exusiai that refer to angelic beings in 1,16, there is no typical Greek lexeme for rule that appears in the hymn. Rather than underscoring Christ's rule, the passage is concerned with other christological tenets, such as Christ's primacy and exclusivity. Therefore, labelling its christology with designations like rule and lordship is not compatible with its content. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.95.1.3285812 |