By Ralph P. Martin
Martin singles out issues which are excessive on modern day schedule of theological and useful inquiry and making plans. those topics are the cosmic dimensions of Christological instructing and the position of the Church as God's locus and agent of reconciliation.
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The Paul- Page 21 ine teaching is mainly expressed in functional terms: the church is like a body to carry out the tasks that Christ appoints for it, and in that instrument of service each member plays a part as a limb or member. This idea is present also in our letter (see 4:7, 16), but there is equally present a new idea: the church complements Christ the head and is given a status that some interpreters call ontological (v. 23). For Ephesians, Christ and the church are inseparable, though we may hasten to qualify this by the remark that there is no confusion of identity and the head remains firmly in control.
Rather, the privilege they now have binds them Page 5 indissolubly to their Jewish counterparts in the family of faith; both groups share in the Holy Spirit of messianic promise (1:13; 4:30). The point seems to be that Gentile Christians, who were streaming into the church, were adopting an easygoing moral code based on a perverted misunderstanding of Paul's teaching (cf. Rom. 6:112). At this same time, they were boasting of their supposed independence of Israel and were becoming intolerant of their Jewish brethren and forgetful of the Jewish past of salvation history (cf.
M. essay on the Colossian Philosophy; George E. Cannon worked with me on his The Use of Traditional Materials in Colossians, published in 1983; Daniel G. D. " A special word of thanks needs to go to John McVay, Assistant Professor of Religion at Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, who began with me at Fuller Theological Seminary and followed me to the University of Sheffield, England, in the interests of his work (in progress) on the role of the church in Ephesians. His labors in producing a readable typescript and checking references have been commendable, and I gladly pay tribute to his rare diligence and skill.
