The ascension, pleroma and ecclesia concepts in Ephesians

[摘要] The basic aim of the study is to investigatethe relationship between a number of christologicaland ecclesiological themes. The first section of theessay is concerned with the identification of thetraditions employed by the author in his presentationof an ascension theology in 1:20-23 and 4:8-10.Having once established these traditions, an attemptis made to trace a Traditiongeschichte for them.The second part of the essay is concerned with therelationship between the ascension theology and thekephale and pleroma motifs which are present in bothpericopes. This investigation necessitates anexamination of the Pauline theology. At the sametime within this section an attempt is made to tracethe source of the pleroma terminology as used by theauthor of the epistle. In the third section of theessay the interest is more general; an attempt ismade to discover how the "component parts" of theauthor's ascension theology are used elsewhere in theepistle. In the fourth and last section of the essaythe interest is again with traditions, specificallythe use made of the traditions inherent in theascension pericopes in the epistle in the writingsof both the Church Fathers and of authors outsidethe main stream of Christian thought.

[发布机构] University:University of St Andrews;Department:Divinity (School of)

[效力级别] Bible. N.T. Ephesians--Criticism, interpretation, etc

[关键词] Bible. N.T. Ephesians--Commentaries;Bible. N.T. Ephesians--Criticism, interpretation, etc;Bible. N.T. Ephesians--Theology