| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Author's Preface -- Introduction -- Content and Major Themes of Ephesians -- Structure of Ephesians -- Ephesians as Enigma -- Address, Authorship, Date, and Historical Context -- Pastoral and Hermeneutical Considerations -- Translation -- Other Commentaries -- Address and Opening Greeting, 1:1-2 -- Opening Worship: "Ever Blessing, Ever Bless'd," 1:3-14 -- * Blessing (TBC) -- * Election and Predestination -- * Christ and Wisdom -- + Worship (TLC) -- + Election and Predestination -- + Gathering Up All Things -- + Father -- Thanksgiving and Intercession, 1:15-23 -- * The Vindication of the Just -- * The Exaltation of the Many -- * God as Divine Warrior -- + Knowledge and Revelation -- + Easter Consciousness -- + Power over the Powers -- From Death to Life Together with Christ, 2:1-10 -- * Two Ways of Walking -- * Has the Resurrection Already Taken Place? -- + Evangelical Separatism? -- + Ethics and Easter -- Christ Is Our Peace, 2:11-22 -- * Biblical Peace -- * Peace and Christology -- * Peace and Identity -- * Law and the New Human -- * The Temple of God -- * The Foundation of the Temple -- + Peace and Mission -- + Peace and the Cross -- + Peace and the Community of Befriended Enemies -- + The Role of Boundaries (Walls) -- + Jews and Gentiles -- + Singing Hymns So They Change Us -- The Secret Revealed, 3:1-13 -- * Paul the Apostle -- * Good News for Gentiles -- * The Suffering Apostle -- * The Multivaried Wisdom of God -- + Heroes of Faith and Action -- + Informing the Powers of God's Wisdom -- + The Comprehensiveness of the Church's Witness -- An Apostolic Prayer, 3:14-21 -- * God the Father -- * Prayer -- + Praying to God the Father -- + Doxology as the Basis of Ethics -- Growing Together into Christ, 4:1-16 -- * Unity -- * Unity Virtues -- * Gifts.
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