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 Author Name: LINCOLN A
Title: WBC - Word Biblical Commentary series - Ephesians
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1990
ISBN: 084990241X / 9780849902413
ISBN: 9780849902413
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Ephesians is widely held to be a profound yet enigmatic epistle. It provides a magnificent statement of the Pauline message of God's gracious salvation and the appropriate human response of a life of love, bringing to the fore the vital role of the church. At the same time it presents interpreters with major puzzles about its authorship and setting.
In the first, full-length, critical English commentary on the Greek text of Ephesians for a considerable time, Dr Andrew T. Lincoln offers new ways of appreciating the distinctiveness of this great epistle. Scholars will find in this commentary a rich use of recent advances in understanding in linguistic, historical, social, literary, and theological areas in order to illumine the contents of the letter. Its thought is set firmly in the context of the Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds of the New Testament.
Students, preachers, and teachers will benefit from the combination of detailed exegesis and clear, readable overviews of the argument. They will be rewarded by the sympathetic yet critical attempt to set out and appropriate the theology and ethics of the letter. They will encounter new ways of looking at many of its well-known passages, e.g., Gentile believers' relation to Israel in 2:11-22, marriage in 5:21-33, and the Christian warfare in 6:10-20.
There is a thorough and sensitive discussion of the issue of the letter's authorship and its close affinity to Colossians, with positive conclusions about the letter's authoritative message.
Among other topics treated in the Introduction are:
- cosmic Christology
- Christ-centered eschatology
- salvation as a completed event
- the church's relation to Judaism
- the church and the world
- the continuing impact of Ephesians
By focusing throughout the commentary on the persuasive power of the writer's discourse, Dr Lincoln shows how Ephesians is an attempt to reinforce its readers' identities as participants in the church and to underscore their distinctive role and conduct in the world.
This also encourages contemporary readers to see how the epistle can transcend its original setting and maintain a broad appeal. As Dr Lincoln claims, there will always be Christians in a variety of settings in need of inner strength, further knowledge of their salvation, greater appreciation of their identity as believers, and as members of the church, increased concern for the church's unity, and more consistent living in such areas as speech, sexuality, and household relationships.
This commentary, therefore, has broad appeal and should prove to be valuable and stimulating resource for all who wish to engage seriously wit the message of Ephesians.
Andrew T. Lincoln lectures in New Testament at the University of Sheffield, England. He he has also taught New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and at St John's College, Nottingham. He holds the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and the B.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. He is the author of a major study of Paul's eschatology, Paradise Now and Not Yet, and of numerous articles in scholarly journals, including several recent ones in the area of narrative criticism of the Gospels.
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