that is fought on the turf of every soul. A battle rages between “the old self” and “the new self,” a battle between our inclination to hate and despise and our participation in the peaceable difference of our creation and renewal. From the beginning the vision in Ephesians has been cosmic in scope and social and political in its implications. Here it would enlist us in a battle not only for our own souls but especially for the renewal of the cosmos and humanity. There are sovereignties in conflict,
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