Mobile Ed: NT343 Book Study: Paul's Letter to the Ephesians (8 hour course)
Overview
Learn from New Testament and Pauline studies expert Dr. Lynn Cohick as she guides you through each chapter and theological concept in Ephesians, including salvation, the Trinity, and the church. She devotes additional time to exploring God’s vision for marriage, and the institution of slavery. She also explains various interpretive theories—like the new perspective on Paul—and how these theories compare with traditional ideas.
Dr. Cohick’s goal is for you to become better equipped to read the rest of Paul’s letters and more confident in reading the Bible as a whole by better understanding the theology, history, and interpretive possibilities of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, and for you to grow in your faith each step of the way.
For a collection of focused courses that will deepen your familiarity with Paul’s prodigious New Testament writing, see the Mobile Ed: Paul’s Letters Bundle (7 courses).
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- Follow the thematic arc of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians
- Compare the traditional view on Paul’s ideas to the new perspective
- Connect concepts like spiritual adoption to the heart
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Introductory Issues
- The Message of Ephesians
- Authorship: Questions and External Evidence
- Authorship: Literary Evidence
- Investigating Historical Issues in Ephesians with the Bible Book Guide
- Authorship: Theological and Historical Concerns
- Authorship: Pseudonymity
- The Purpose of Ephesians
- Ephesians and the New Perspective on Paul
- Paul’s Imprisonment: Part 1
- Paul’s Imprisonment: Part 2
- Paul’s Imprisonment: Part 3
- The Date of Ephesians
- The Ephesians
Unit 2: Adopted by God (Eph 1)
- Eulogy
- Verbs, Participles, and Prepositions
- Predestination
- Grammatical and Semantic Roles Associated with the Verb “to Predestine”
- God’s Holy People
- The Mystery of Salvation
- Researching Mystērion with the Bible Sense Lexicon
- In Christ
- Sealed by the Spirit
- Adoption to Sonship
- Prayer: Part 1
- Prayer: Part 2
- Using the Exegetical Guide to Analyze the Syntax of Tē Ekklēsia
Unit 3: No Longer Strangers (Eph 2)
- Oneness in Christ: Part 1
- Oneness in Christ: Part 2
- Justification and Works
- Kingdom Work
- Christ Our Peace
- The Dividing Wall
- The Dividing Law
Unit 4: The Mystery of the Gospel (Eph 3)
- Building Rapport
- A Prisoner and Servant
- Mystery
- The Global Church
- Glory in Christ
- Paul’s Second Prayer
- God’s Fullness
Unit 5: Equipped for Ministry (Eph 4)
- Theology within Ethics
- The Characteristics of a Christian
- Grace and God’s Gifts
- Spiritual Gifts
- A Difficult Quotation
- Searching the Pauline Epistles for Old Testament Quotations and Allusions
- The Work of the Church
- Made New
- Practical Advice
- Helping Those in Need
Unit 6: Imitating God (Eph 5:1–21)
- Christian Community
- Canceling Debt
- God’s Economy
- Walk as Christ Walked
- Love and Suffering
- Exposing Evil Deeds
- Paul’s Hymn and Isaiah
Unit 7: Household Codes (Eph 5:22–6:9)
- The Social World of the Ephesians
- Hermeneutics and the Household Codes
- The Institution of Slavery
- Using the Passage Guide to Research Household Codes in Ephesians 5:21–6:9
- Submission
- The Head and the Body
- Performing a Manual Word Study on Kephalē in Ephesians 5:23
- The Oneness of Marriage
Unit 8: Special Topic: Marriage in the New Testament
- Graeco-Roman Marriage Ideals
- Jewish Marriage Ideals
- Divorce
- Marriage Customs in the First Century
- Marriage in the New Testament
Unit 9: The Armor of God (Eph 6:10–24)
- Preparing for Attack
- The Armor
- God’s Own Armor
- Paul’s Closing Remarks
- Using the Concordance to Search for Tychicus in the Bible and Commentaries
Conclusion
- Course Summary
Product Details
- Title: NT343 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians
- Instructor: Lynn H. Cohick
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2015
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 8
Partially includedAbout the Instructor
Dr. Lynn H. Cohick is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. Dr. Cohick’s special interests include women in the ancient world, the ways that Jews and Christians lived out their faith in the Graeco-Roman world, and building understanding between Jews and Christians today. She has written commentaries on Ephesians and Galatians, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians and coauthored The New Testament in Antiquity.
Getting the most out of Mobile Ed
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This course was produced with screencast videos. These videos provide tutorials showing you how to use Logos Bible Software in ways that are tied directly into the content of the course. We are now producing Activities resources as a replacement for screencast videos. We plan on updating this course to include this additional Activities resource in the future for no extra charge.
Reviews
1 rating
Jim Lowther
9/1/2020
Why is it that when I downloaded this course I did not receive NT343 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians (Activities)?
Deepak Kumar Singh
6/11/2017
Dr. Lynn Cohick is a respected New Testament and Pauline studies expert who guides through each chapter and theological concept in Ephesians. She focuses on the rich Trinitarian language, and also take a look at how Paul conceives of the church —that is his ecclesiology, his study of the the church. The course explores in detail what the believer is, who the believer is in Christ, and how believers together make up the body of Christ. This also includes, as well, the household codes and concepts like marriage, slavery etc. The course also takes a look at what the New Perspective on Paul and how that compares and contrasts with more traditional perspectives or interpretations. The course really highlights the glorious truths from the book of Ephesians for its readers. Highly recommended!
