P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

ich 'Christology':
Christ is presented as Son of
God (1:3, 4:13), the &yn~~ToS
(1:6), pre-existent
(1:4), Head of the Church - Head of the world (1:20-23,
4:.9-16, 5:23), the giver of all gifts (4:7f, 11), the
treasury of all knowledge and riches (3:8-10).
The
author succeeds in affording to Christ the place
occupied by God in the OT but nevertheless does not
lessen the emphasis on the Fatherhood of God:
indeed
the reverse is the case.
The phenomenon is a natural
consequence of his view of the resurrection-ascension
of Christ as put forward in 1:20-23 and 4:8f in that
by means of this Christ now is 'king' but, at the
same time, his kingship depends ultimately upon God,
as is expressed in 5:5.
2.5 Christ and the Believer
The relationship between Christ and the
believer in Ephesians can be adequately set out by
means of a brief examination of two grammatical or
linguistical concepts made use of by the author, namely,
the ~v Xpc.crtli\ formulation and the proliferation of
verb and noun forms compounded with the preposition
CTUV- • It will be seen that the use of both concepts
is related to a greater or less degree, depending of
course on the actual context of the occurrence, to the
ascension theme.
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