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Published: 11 July 1991
..., historically, the theology of Paul himself. Within the Pauline corpus, the pastoral epistles have a clear profile and, because of their differences from the acknowledged letters, even though some would find Paul's hand or at least fragments from his genuine letters in their production. Colossians and Ephesians...
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The Affects of Unity: Ephesians 4:1–4
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Emmanuel Housset
Published: 01 May 2017
...In this chapter, Emmanuel Housset examines the affective dimensions of Paul’s conception of community in Ephesians 4:1-4. According to that passage, Christians are called to live with “humility, gentleness, and patience.” For Housset, those three affects constitute a Christian way of “being-thrown...
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Published: 01 March 2016
...Baur starts this period (ad 70–140) with the Epistle to the Hebrews, which, he says, mediates between Paul’s critique of Judaism and the apocalyptic writer’s embrace of it. It does so by introducing the idea of an eternal priesthood. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles (Ephesians, Colossians...
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Posthumanism
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Denise Kimber Buell
Published: 04 October 2019
... with posthumanism, this essay offers new possibilities for reading ancient narratives of human origins such as Genesis 1-3 and its retellings, for identifying non-reproductive kin-making and multispecies mutualisms through rhetoric and ritual, and for reconsidering temporality. A brief case study of Ephesians also...
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Paul and Gnostic Dogma
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April D. DeConick
Published: 27 September 2016
...Paul’s interaction with Gnostic Spirituality in his authentic letters, including Colossians and Ephesians; his radical antinomianism and universalism. Engages the movie, “Dogma.” angels Bethany Sloan fictional character Dogma film Dogma humans Metatron Bartleby fictional character beliefs...
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Doctrine and Sexuality
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Eugene F. Rogers
Published: 01 May 2014
... Trinity asexual asexuality Gregory Nazianzen passion persons homosexual semen Song of Songs Canticles agape eros gay lesbian s monasticism sin analogy Ephesians 5 exegesis experience gender Gentiles same-sex marriage nature para phusin exegesis of Romans 1 If you are looking...
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Introduction
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Andrew Cain
Published: 07 October 2021
... the broader Pauline “renaissance” of the fourth- and fifth-century western church, problematizes the issues surrounding his four Pauline commentaries (on Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon) that necessitate fresh investigation, and summarizes each of the seven chapter’s contents and arguments. It also...
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Moral Bodies: Ecclesiastical Development and Slaveholding Culture
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Jennifer A. Glancy
Published: 28 March 2002
... and ethical development of freeborn persons. The household codes (haustafeln) of New Testament epistles (including Colossians, Ephesians, the Pastoral Epistles, and 1 Peter) and selected extracanonical sources provided a new and powerful ideological tool for slaveholders who sought to create compliant bodies...
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Vergil and the Monastery in Beowulf
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Richard North
Published: 08 February 2007
...This chapter offers a preliminary survey of Beowulf 's likely Latin and vernacular written sources, which are here argued to cover reading from: Genesis, 1 Enoch, 1 Samuel, Judges, Psalms, Maccabees, the four gospels and Ephesians 6; Cassian's Conlationes ; either...
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Published: 30 June 2022
...–Son, Clement found it was the goal of the Christian life to believe in the Son and thus “become unitary.” For Clement, this goal of God’s action in the divine economy is most clearly expressed in Ephesians 4, where Paul introduces Christ as the “perfect man,” the likeness to which all men are educated...
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John’s Systematic Use of Ephesians
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Thomas L Brodie
Published: 14 January 1993
...), the Zacchaeus incident (Luke 19:1-10), and Moses ‘ final discourse (Deut 29-30). But despite the apparently genuine contribution of each of these component parts, John’s climactic chapter appears to depend even more on yet another source-the epistle to the Ephesians. Ephesians is concerned with how Christ...
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A Choice of Epistles
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Andrew Cain
Published: 07 October 2021
... compose commentaries on the seemingly miscellaneous quartet of Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon? Cyprus Eustochium Jerusalem New Testament books patronage Paula Pauline renaissance Portus Rome Tyrrhenian Sea Bethlehem Bordeaux Pilgrim Church of the Nativity Constantine Egeria...
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In Origen’s Footsteps: Greek Sources
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Andrew Cain
Published: 07 October 2021
... to establish himself as the pre-eminent expert on Paul in the Latin-speaking world. Both in this preface and in the first Ephesians one he says that he “followed” Origen’s commentaries. But, beyond simply aligning himself rhetorically with Origen in these prefaces, to what extent does he in fact “follow...
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“Our Common Salvation”
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Guy Maclean Rogers
Published: 08 January 2013
...This chapter focuses on how the Ephesians again had trouble subsidizing the traditional sacrifices of the year, including the ones that took place on Artemis's birthday, and how wide variations in the number of yearly Kouretes suggest changes or instability within the association. Although...
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The Married Couple
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Beatrice Gottlieb
Published: 14 January 1993
...0 14 01 1993 Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians says: “This is a great mystery (5: 32).” Paul is speaking of the relationship between husband and wife, which for him is a metaphor for the relationship between Christ and the church. His words are constantly used in Christian discussions...
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Sacraments in the Pauline Epistles
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David Lincicum
Published: 07 March 2016
... theology. Both the Lord’s Supper and baptism are eschatological phenomena that signal, and in some sense usher in, the new age, and are ultimately expressions of Paul’s participationist soteriology. baptism Jesus Christ Lord’s Supper Corinthians Ephesians 5 31–33 Genesis 2 24 grace History...
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King Wiglaf and Eanmundes laf
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Richard North
Published: 08 February 2007
...This chapter considers the Wiglafs in Beowulf and Mercian history. Charters and other evidence are used to study the lineages, cross-border families and claims to piety of each of them. Hrothgar, whose use of Ephesians 6 has a match in Wiglaf's epitaph to Beowulf, is compared...
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Published: 11 July 1991
...Critics have been questioning, for more than a century and a half, the six letters, which carry the name of Paul as author (Ephesians and the pastorals) or co-author (Colossians, 2 Thessalonians). However, none of the six is by Paul himself, but the evidence is more compelling in some instances...
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The Pauline Commentaries
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Paul C. Gutjahr
Published: 02 March 2011
...Chapter forty-seven explores three of the biblical commentaries Hodge wrote during the 1850s: Ephesians, First Corinthians, and Second Corinthians. Partly in response to the massive popularity of Albert Barnes’s New Testament commentary series, Hodge approached Joseph Addison Alexander...
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