P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

unterstehen, vielmehr zwei konzentrische Kreise,von
denen der innere die Kirche, die aussere den Kosmos
darstellt, beide zusammen von Christus regiert, wenn
auch in verschiedener Weise.
Und die Grenze zwischen
Kirche und Kosmos ist keine feste und starre, sondern,
gleichsame und dynamische
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... . The Church then in
Ephesians, although never identified with the cosmos,
has cosmological significance in that it is the
cosmos which is being brought by the Church into the
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6. THE ~AAH - l:2MA RELATIONSHIP & THE ASCENSION
The one significant difference between the
X€~A~
context.
references in Ephesians and Colossians is in
It is only in Ephesians that the term appears
in an ascension context, particularly in 1:22 and, to
a lesser extant, 4:15.
Moreover, it is only in
Ephesians that the headship is explicitly set down as
a headship over both Church and cosmos.
In Ephesians
the theological point of departure for both the author's
discussion and definition of the headship of Christ is
the ascension: he is Xe:r.pa.AT) ~·dp mv'ta. because
and only because-he has ascended, and equally, he is
with all its implications of
life giving source, because he has ascended.
We have
previously seen that in Ephesians the ascension is
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