Wee bit of cultural historical background needed here: it's the idea of Spirits everywhere, invisible, swirling around in the air and in all living things. You can't catch them but they can catch you and unless you appease them then you only have yourself to blame for every spot and pimple, disease and death that comes your way. What a nighmare way of living but such was the state of being for many in Colossae. Indeed there was a rich seam of various philosophical and spiritual ideas competeing with each other. Then along comes Paul (or someone who sounded awfully like him) and said: here's another one to add to your list: Jesus Christ, but he shifts all the rest into 'so last year'.
The 'Christ Philosophy' isn't something that simply reinterprets what's gone before (though with Advent and christmas coming up, that's exactly what has happened) but shifts one way of thinking and replaces it with another. And that is the crux. The Christ Philosophy transfers one philosophy into lost baggage and replaces it entierly with a new way of thinking about our relationships with each other and the world. How many times ought we say that to ourselves becasue we still live trusting two different philosophies: our secular one (of economy and politics and pensions and stock markets) and our sacred one ('just in case'). It's a bit of Harry Potter: wizarding world and muggle world.
It is Reign of Christ Sunday. It's not a Sunday that's meant to replace the monarch with the Jesus but one that says: the Christ Philosophy is not an alternative in a competative market-place for would be followers: it is everything. In this philosophy, 'all things hold together'.
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