Tag: life-giving source

Household: “Head” in Colossians

Oct 1, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Colossians is our next stop in investigating the "head" (kephale) metaphor in the New Testament. False teaching appears to be the impetus for writing Colossians. While the false teaching is not explicitly identified, it seems to have been some form of Gnostic heresy. Some elements refuted are ceremonialism, asceticism, angel worship, the deprecation of Christ,…
Houeshold: “Head” as “Origin” or “Source”

Sep 20, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

I wrote in my previous post that the head was not the bodily organ responsible for intellect and control in Greek physiology. What, then, is the function of the head with regard to the body? The head was the life-giving source that animated the rest of the body. The body grew out of the head.…