ABSTRACT

This study approaches the Epistle to the Ephesians in a radically different way from traditional commentaries. Rather than analysing each individual verse, Martin Kitchen examines the complete text within the framework of contemporary biblical criticism. He acknowledges the debt which biblical studies owes to historical method, while at the same time recognizing the need to view the Epistle against the background of recent literary approaches to New Testament texts. Ephesians also takes into account the important questions of whether the Epistle was written by St Paul and, if not, why it was written at all.
This book will be valuable reading for all theologians, students of theology and ministers of religion.

chapter Chapter 1|20 pages

An introduction to a reading of Ephesians

chapter Chapter 2|14 pages

The legacy of Paul

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

Summing up

chapter Chapter 4|18 pages

Thanksgiving

chapter Chapter 5|13 pages

The worthy walk

chapter Chapter 6|14 pages

Walk differently, in love and in light

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Walk wisely

chapter Chapter 8|17 pages

The armour of God

chapter |6 pages

Postscript

‘To sum up'