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Barclay brings to light the literary and historical connections between Colossians and Philemon. Paul’s theology and the early influence of Gnosticism, and he reexamines the Colossian hymn. Barclay also outlines Paul’s Christology in relation to the doctrine of creation, doctrine of God, doctrine of salvation, other-worldly powers, and the church. Regarding Philemon, Barclay concerns himself with...

indicates the corresponding expansive thrust of early Christian theology. It is not merely that all these classes of people are ‘one in Christ Jesus’ (Gal. 3:28), or that they have been baptized into one body, the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12–13): rather, Col. 3:11 makes the far broader claim that ‘Christ is all and in all’ (ta panta kai en pasin Christos). Hence a formula which originally claimed the reunification and remaking of humankind in baptism here reflects the expansion of Christian horizons
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