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Living to the Praise of God's Glory
The letter to the Ephesians is missional to its core. It effectively exhorts its readers to understand, support, and participate in God's mission to rescue humanity and all creation from the damage and distortion of sin, and so bring about a renewed creation filled with God's glorious fullness. Working at the creative intersection of biblical studies and missiology, this study adopts a missional hermeneutic to overcome the scholarly neglect of mission in Ephesians. The book systematically explores each passage in Ephesians, delving into the characterization of God and his mission; allusions to Old Testament missional texts in Ephesians; and the portrayal of the apostle Paul and believers as participants in God's mission. A multi-faceted vision of mission emerges which encompasses God's actions in salvation history; the church as mediator of God's glory, reconciliation and grace to the nations; prayer; ethical witness; and verbal proclamation of the gospel. Reading Ephesians through this missional lens yields fresh insights into its purpose and context, and the richness of its portrait of mission.
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Living to the Praise of God's Glory
The letter to the Ephesians is missional to its core. It effectively exhorts its readers to understand, support, and participate in God's mission to rescue humanity and all creation from the damage and distortion of sin, and so bring about a renewed creation filled with God's glorious fullness. Working at the creative intersection of biblical studies and missiology, this study adopts a missional hermeneutic to overcome the scholarly neglect of mission in Ephesians. The book systematically explores each passage in Ephesians, delving into the characterization of God and his mission; allusions to Old Testament missional texts in Ephesians; and the portrayal of the apostle Paul and believers as participants in God's mission. A multi-faceted vision of mission emerges which encompasses God's actions in salvation history; the church as mediator of God's glory, reconciliation and grace to the nations; prayer; ethical witness; and verbal proclamation of the gospel. Reading Ephesians through this missional lens yields fresh insights into its purpose and context, and the richness of its portrait of mission.
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Living to the Praise of God's Glory

Living to the Praise of God's Glory

by Mark A Simon
Living to the Praise of God's Glory

Living to the Praise of God's Glory

by Mark A Simon

Overview

The letter to the Ephesians is missional to its core. It effectively exhorts its readers to understand, support, and participate in God's mission to rescue humanity and all creation from the damage and distortion of sin, and so bring about a renewed creation filled with God's glorious fullness. Working at the creative intersection of biblical studies and missiology, this study adopts a missional hermeneutic to overcome the scholarly neglect of mission in Ephesians. The book systematically explores each passage in Ephesians, delving into the characterization of God and his mission; allusions to Old Testament missional texts in Ephesians; and the portrayal of the apostle Paul and believers as participants in God's mission. A multi-faceted vision of mission emerges which encompasses God's actions in salvation history; the church as mediator of God's glory, reconciliation and grace to the nations; prayer; ethical witness; and verbal proclamation of the gospel. Reading Ephesians through this missional lens yields fresh insights into its purpose and context, and the richness of its portrait of mission.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725299665
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 05/24/2021
Series: Australian College of Theology Monograph
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Mark A. Simon is tutor in New Testament at Ridley College Melbourne, and a minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.

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“Mark Simon’s study of Ephesians is a bold breakthrough in the study of this Pauline letter. Simon argues convincingly that Ephesians is a thoroughly missional document aimed at encouraging its audience to participate in the multivalent missio Dei. Readers may disagree with certain details and minor points of interpretation, but the overall argument is methodologically coherent and completely persuasive. This is an important contribution to Ephesians scholarship and to the discipline of missional hermeneutics.”


—Michael J. Gorman, professor, St. Mary’s Seminary and University





“The big message of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians coheres with the big message of salvation history as revealed in the entirety of the canonical Scriptures: God is on mission to restore and renew his creation in Christ. Mark Simon’s excellent monograph offers a compelling and nuanced reading of Ephesians that draws out the missio Dei in all its glory.”


—Constantine R. Campbell, author of Paul and the Hope of Glory





“A central but neglected question for biblical studies is how the books of the Bible form their readers for involvement in the mission of God. Living to the Praise of God’s Glory answers this question with reference to Ephesians. The book is full of historical, exegetical, and theological insights and sheds new light on the purpose and usefulness of Ephesians for today’s church.”


—Brian S. Rosner, principal, Ridley College

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