NT041-812 - Interpreting and Applying Ephesians

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT705-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of Ephesians

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of Ephesians

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of Ephesians

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of Ephesians

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Ephesians’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

a. Exegetical study of Ephesians, including attention to application

b. Investigation of selected themes from the letter and their contemporary implications for Christian living and Christian ministry. Such themes could include:

(i) Salvation

(ii) Christology

(iii) The church

(iv) Eschatology

(v) Ethics

(vi) Household relationships

(vii) Mission

(viii) Spiritual warfare

(ix) The Holy Spirit 

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Prescribed:

Thielman, Frank, Ephesians (BECNT; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010).

OR

Arnold, Clinton E., Ephesians (ZECNT; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010). 

OR

another commentary of equivalent currency and quality

 

Recommended:

Commentaries

Barth, Markus, Ephesians: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2 vols.; AB; Garden City: Doubleday, 1974).

Best, E., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Ephesians (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998).

Fowl, Stephen E., Ephesians: A Commentary (NTL; Louisville: WJK, 2012).

Hoehner, Harold W., Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002).

Klein, W. W., “Ephesians,” in The Expositor's Bible Commentary, vol. 12, ed. Tremper Longman and David E. Garland (Rev. edn; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005): 19-173.

Lincoln, Andrew T., Ephesians (WBC; Dallas: Word, 1990).

MacDonald, Margaret Y., and Daniel J. Harrington, Colossians and Ephesians (SP; Collegeville: Liturgical, 2000).

Neufeld, Thomas R., Ephesians (Scottdale: Herald, 2001).

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, Ephesians (Wisdom; Collegeville: Liturgical, 2017)

Snodgrass, Klyne, Ephesians (NIVAC; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996).

Witherington, Ben, The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).

 

Other Items

Arnold, Clinton E., Power and Magic: The Concept of Power in Ephesians (2nd edn; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997).

Best, Ernest, Essays on Ephesians (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997).

Gombis, Timothy G., The Drama of Ephesians: Participating in the Triumph of God (Downers Grove: IVP, 2010).

Hering, James P, The Colossian and Ephesian Haustafeln in Theological Context: An Analysis of Their Origins, Relationship, and Message (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).

Jeal, Roy R., Integrating Theology and Ethics in Ephesians: The Ethos of Communication (Lewiston: Mellen, 2000).

Judge, E. A., “Ethical Terms in St Paul and the Inscriptions of Ephesus.” In The First Christians in the Roman World: Augustan and New Testament Essays, ed. James R. Harrison (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008): 368-79.

Lincoln, Andrew T., and A. J. M. Wedderburn, The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Marshall, I. Howard, “Salvation, Grace and Works in the Later Pauline Corpus,” NTS 42 (1996): 339-58.

Moritz, T., A Profound Mystery: The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians (NovTSup; Leiden: Brill, 1996).

Murphy-O-Connor, J., St Paul’s Ephesus: Texts and Archaeology (Collegeville: Liturgical, 20018).

Neufeld, T. Y., Put on the Armour of God: The Divine Warrior from Isaiah to Ephesians (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).

Peterson, Eugene H., Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing up in Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).

Thielman, Frank, “Ephesians,” in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, ed. G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson (Nottingham: IVP, 2007): 813-833.

Thurston, Bonnie Bowman, Spiritual Life in the Early Church: The Witness of Acts and Ephesians (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).

Trebilco, Paul R., The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).