{"id":2823,"date":"2007-10-31T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/colossians-remixed-33.html"},"modified":"2007-10-31T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:10:19","slug":"colossians-remixed-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/colossians-remixed-33.html","title":{"rendered":"Colossians Remixed 33"},"content":{"rendered":"

After mentioning that Paul’s ethic in Colossians is a resurrection, ascension, liberation, and eschatological ethic, Walsh and Keesmaat, in Colossians Remixed<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, contend also that the ethic of Paul is “relational” and “narrative” and (tomorrow’s post) an ethic of secession.
\n“Absolutes, William [imaginary character in this book] insists, are unrelated, timeless truths that come to us as nonnegotiable moral laws. Is this what Paul is up to..?” (157). Yes, but mostly No. Paul offers a relational ethic.
\nThis section then explores, wondrously, all the relational “in Christ” language of Colossians. Here are some: from 2:9-15 we see this 7x — fullness dwells in him, we come to fullness in him, buried with him, raised with him…
\nThe ethic is rooted not in Torah as commandment but in life in Christ … “because of a matrix of relationships that characterize new life in Christ” (157).
\nIt is also a narrative ethic. “Praxis — that is, human culture-forming, ethical behavior in daily life — is narratively grounded because we act out of who we are” (157). And here I think W-K do some very important theologizing in Colossians: character is narrative formed and the narrative Paul forms them in is the narrative story of Jesus — his whole story is their story. He identifies them with every major event in the life of Jesus.
\nHere are those events:
\nDeath, burial, resurrection, ascension and second coming.
\n“The story of Jesus is our story.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After mentioning that Paul’s ethic in Colossians is a resurrection, ascension, liberation, and eschatological ethic, Walsh and Keesmaat, in Colossians Remixed, contend also that the ethic of Paul is “relational” and “narrative” and (tomorrow’s post) an ethic of secession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"yoast_head":"\nColossians Remixed 33 - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/colossians-remixed-33.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colossians Remixed 33 - 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