Reading Ephesians: Exploring Social Entrepreneurship in the Text

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Constructing Identity Positioning ephesians scholarship..........1 \Self-Positioning : Reading ephesians as social enterpreneurship..........12 Reading ephesians I : Social Identity approach to contruction of identity in the text ...........26 2. Legitimating identity Theoretical framework for Exploring social remembering and Communal Legitimation .........51 Introduction to Reading of Ephesians 2 and 3 ...........51 Theoretical framework ..........65 Legitimating the community, ideology and identity.........65 3. Reading Ephesians 2: Remembering christ and its communal Functions ...........85 Ephesians 2 and the socio-Ideological Positioning of the Discourse .............94 Christ has abolished the law as a socio-Ideological test for reading of Ephesians .............101 Ephesians 2.15, Ephesians jewishness and shaping the reputation of Christ ..........142 4. Reading ephesians 3: Remembering paul and Communal Legitimation .............149 3. Positioning Identity Theoretical framework for Exploring communal Social Orientation ..............183 Introduction to reading ephesians 4-6...........183 Theoretical Framework for Exploring communal Social Orientation ...........183 Reading ephesians 4-6: Prototypes and Antitypes: Paradigms for social Orientation ........198 Communal Prototypes: The holy, The Conservative ............199 Communal Antitypes: The gentiles, the Deviant .........226 Social Enterpreneurship in Ephesians 4-6........244 Reading ephesians and Exploring its social Enterpreneurship.........250 Reading ephesians and Exploring emerging christianness.............255