Completing Christ’s Afflictions
Christ, Paul, and the Reconciliation of All Things
by Bruce T. Clark
Paperback (Published)
(February 2015)
ISBN: 9783161533341
6.06 x 9.09 inches
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What is the relationship between the preeminent, cosmos-reconciling ‘Christ’ of Col 1:15-20 and the imprisoned ‘Paul’ of 1:24-29, who enigmatically ‘completes’ the former’s afflictions as he declares to ‘every person’ the mystery, long concealed but only now revealed by Israel’s God to his holy ones? After finding solid exegetical ground through an unprecedented and exhaustive study of the rare verb antanapleroo (in 1.24), Bruce Clark tackles this most intriguing, if challenging question. He argues that Col 1, in accord with 2 Cor 5:18-6:4, presents Paul as the utterly unique diakonos (‘minister’) of the universal ekklesia and, therefore, as one whose afflictions uniquely complete Christ’s own, so that together, revealing the righteousness of God, they initiate the divine reconciliation of ‘all things.’
- By (author) Bruce T Clark
"Clark is thorough and exact throughout the work, and this monograph makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Col 1:24 and Paul's unique self-understanding and rhetorical self-presentation." --Alexander E. Stewart, Tyndale Theological Seminary 1.20.2017
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