Excerpt from Christ the Creative Ideal: Studies in Colossians and Ephesians
The motive of this book is the same as animated the writer"s previous publications, viz. the desire to present Christianity in such a way as is in harmony with our modern knowledge, and so as to commend it to those especially who are at present in doubt or difficulty concerning it, or wholly indifferent to it. The teaching of Colossians and Ephesians seems to offer a basis for such a presentation of the great Christian truths, because, in Colossians especially, Christ and all that was done and is yet to be done in and through Him, are carried back to the Creation of the World and to God"s Eternal purpose therein. An endeavour is therefore made to show how we have thus in Christ the revelation of the mystery of human life and destiny; how Christ appears on the lines of the creative and educative action of God in Nature and in man; what Christ is to us to-day; what the Church is meant to be to Him; what the Christian "Hope of Glory" is; and how the Eternal Purpose of God in Creation and Redemption shall yet be completely fulfilled. The last chapter of the book has not been lightly written. It gives expression to that which seems the necessary conclusion from the teaching of these Epistles as well as from the conception of God as the Infinite Reason and Love and the Father of men.
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