Passage

Colossians 2

• Glossary Term

  Certificate Of Debt

  NEW.

  COL.2.9-15

• Doctrine

  Freedom from Religious Regulations

  Part of the Colossian-heresy complex; German history-of-religions scholarship (religionsgeschichtliche Schule) offers useful background for teaching material.

  COL.2.16-23

• Glossary Term

  Fullness Of Deity Bodily

  NEW.

  COL.2.9-15

• Glossary Term

  Philosophy And Empty Deceit

  NEW.

  COL.2.8

• Doctrine

  The Fullness of Deity in Christ Bodily

  Most concentrated deity-and-incarnation statement in the letter; Gottheit (abstract deity-nature) distinct from Gott (the person, God).

  COL.2.9-15

• Doctrine

  Warning Against False Teaching / Philosophy

  German-specific: guard against a blanket anti-philosophy misreading given Germany's high cultural regard for philosophy (Kant, Hegel, German Idealism).

  COL.2.8

• Glossary Term

  Worship Of Angels

  NEW.

  COL.2.16-23