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Colossians, Epistle to the
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Colossians, Epistle to the a book of the New Testament, an epistle of St Paul to the Church at Colossae in Phrygia.
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The Colossian Cyncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae. By Clinton E. Arnold. WUNT 2.77...and practices troubling the church in Colossae. He recognizes that there is indeed...and Cariathe geographical environs of Colossae. Yet nevertheless he is convinced that...
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The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; CLINTON E. ARNOLD, The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae (WUNT 2/77; Tubingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1995). Pp. xii + 378. Paper DM 128. Clinton Arnold attempts to solve the difficult...
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The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Foreign text omitted. Clinton E. Arnold. The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996. xii + 378 pp. $19.99. Clint Arnold's work on the Colossian philosophy represents a bold...
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Heavenly Perspective: A Study of the Apostle Paul's Response to a Jewish Mystical Movement at Colossae
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Heavenly Perspective: A Study of the Apostle Paul's Response to a Jewish Mystical Movement at Colossae. By Ian K. Smith. Library of New Testament Studies 326. London: T & T Clark, 2006, xxi + 254 pp., $130.00. This...
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Epistle to Philemon raises many questions
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 9/16/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...agree that Philemon probably lived in Colossae, a city to which Paul also dispatched...his wife, Apphia, were martyred at Colossae, and the church there assigned them...references mention an elderly bishop in Colossae named Onesimus. Could the runaway slave...
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Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...here termed Writer, and placed at Colossae in Phrygia), and that the letter was...is working hard for the communities of Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis. So K...envoy in founding a mother church there. Colossae was in the Lycus valley and Hierapolis...
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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Colossians and Philemon
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...preceded by an introduction containing sections on Colossae, the church at Colossae, the letter's authenticity, place of writing...developments supporting the view that the problem in Colossae is primarily, if not exclusively, the teachings...
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Living by the word: dressing up.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the apostle Paul wrote to the church at Colossae, he may have had this young priest...priest Jesus. Interestingly enough, Colossae was known for producing a particularly...master. (Philemon and Onesimus were from Colossae.) They should sacrifice prejudices...
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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL; Mysteries hidden beneath dirt pile tantalize tourists.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 9/18/1999; ; 605 words
; ...the modern Turkish town of Honaz. When the bus arrived at Colossae everyone scrambled out and started up the hill. It's a mound...imperial Roman power and the Hellenistic culture is overwhelming. Colossae was a place where the roads from Sardis and Ephesus met. It...
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Paul, Man of Conflict
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...but Col is what it is in content because the situation in Colossae was what it was, rather than because it was written near the...author points out there is no crisis in reference to Judaism in Colossae as there was in Galatia. There is something especially fitting...
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Colossae
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Colossae , ancient city of SW Phrygia, Asia Minor, S...eclipsed by neighboring Laodicea. The area around Colossae was famous for fantastic theological theories...through his fellow worker, Epaphras, who lived at Colossae.
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Philemon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Philemon. The recipient of St Paul's brief epistle of that name. He was a Christian of Colossae or the neighbourhood, whose slave, Onesimus , had run away and had met Paul. Paul sent Onesimus back to his master with this...
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Colossians, Epistle to the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...prison, probably in Rome , possibly in Ephesus ; many modern critics attribute it to an early follower of Paul. The Church at Colossae, in western Turkey, had been founded not by Paul but by Epaphras. The primary purpose of the epistle was to recall its readers...
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captivity epistles
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...have taken some four months, but such a delay does not rule out the Roman hypothesis. The distance on the other hand from Colossae to Rome, and so the problem of the journeys of Onesimus , the absconding slave, give Ephesus more plausibility as the place...
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Colossians, Paul's letter to the
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...seventh letter of Paul. Religious teachers had come into the Lycus valley and were disturbing the tranquillity of the Church at Colossae. There has been much scholarly discussion about their identity. Were they Gnostics—of the kind that flourished...
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