The key thought of Ephesians is the gathering together of all things in Jesus Christ. In nature as it is, without Christ there is nothing but disunity and disharmony; it is, as Tennyson described it, ‘red in tooth and claw’. The dominion that human beings hold has broken the social union which should exist between them and the natural world; we are divided from one another, class from class, nation from nation, ideology from ideology, Gentile from Jew. What is true of the world of outer nature is