on 2:6–23 for details). For this camp of scholarly opinion, Colossians is a defense against a worldview that is alien to Christian convictions. Recently, however, Meeks and Wilson have mounted a case for seeing Colossians against the backdrop of Hellenistic philosophy’s strategies to form the moral character of its adherents. Colossians certainly does employ the main strategies used by moral philosophers in the Mediterranean world of the time (see the commentary on 1:1–2 and 1:3–23 for details).