RT Article
T1 No Longer Strangers and Aliens, but Fellow Citizens: Ephesians 2:12, 19 in conversation with Hellenistic Philosophy
JF The Asbury journal
VO 77
IS 2
SP 359
OP 377
A1 Richardson, Philip
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824417233
AB This essay compares Paul's use of aliens, strangers, and citizens language in Eph 2:12, 19 in the wider context of the epistle with its figurative use in select Hellenistic Philosophical writers. Whereas philosophers view all, or at least the virtuous, as citizens of the universe, Ephesians sees all as alienated from God, unless reconciled by Christ. Philosophy called the virtuous to live in accord with its path, disdaining the body. For Ephesians, Christ's new humanity in Christ can live God's way in the body by the mystery revealed and empowered by the Spirit.
K1 Ephesians
K1 Citizens
K1 Aliens
K1 Hellenistic Philosophy
K1 figurative language
DO 10.7252/Journal.02.2022F.10