Tag: ephesians

  • Preaching Paths 11 August 2024 Proper 14B**

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s 2nd NT reading, Ephesians 4:25-5:2, is concerned with practices befitting the Christologically-anchored, revolutionary reconstruction of human community described in Ephesians chapters 1-3. There is nothing specifically Christian about most of the vices, virtues and practices described in today’s text. Similar lists abound in ancient literature. What…

  • Proper 13 (18), 4th August 2024

    Ephesians 4:1-16 Maintain the unity of the faith 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 4:2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 4:3making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit…

  • Preaching Paths 4 August 2024 Proper 13B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Ephesians 4:1-16, the 2nd NT Reading for today, opens the paraenetic chapters (4-6) of this epistle. These verses presuppose the Christocentric theological panorama unfurled in chs 1-3. The writer’s addressees are the hard-pressed, mixed Jewish / Gentile congregations of Asia Minor. The very fact of fellowship between…