Divine Combat in Ephesians 1-2, Pt. 4
Aug 26, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
In this episode, I finish talking about the second cycle of divine combat Paul narrates in Ephesians 2:11-22.
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Tim GombosHost
Aug 26, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
In this episode, I finish talking about the second cycle of divine combat Paul narrates in Ephesians 2:11-22.
Tim GombosHost
Sorry, about the formative dimensions of certain texts when I was talking about the first part of Ephesians 2 and just in response to Danny's email about how does my contention that Ephesians 2 is sort of a theology, is part of a narrative theology informing and shaping the identity of God's people.
But Danny sent an email back and said that, yeah, it was addressing what he was getting at.
And in about two sentences, he said what I was trying to say far more effectively than I was trying to capture it.
But I was thinking about how he had said it was really interesting that yes, indeed, biblical texts are designed to form the identity and the self-conception of the people of God.
And unfortunately, I think in a modern context, and I don't mean simply by modern, I don't mean like today or like in the last 30 years.
I really mean, like, say, like the last 500 years in a modern context where sort of in a in a reformational and post-reformational context.
That has exalted cognition and has exalted the mind and has kind of forgotten about, um, the communal dimensions of, of, uh, biblical texts and the, the community forming dimensions of biblical passages, but in a, in a cultural era that has exalted the mind.
So like so many people in the West, so many Christian folks in the West grapple with biblical texts in order to sort of grab information.
And Danny was just mentioning, I thought this was really well put, that when a biblical text is taken to do other work than what it was designed to do, it can be malforming.
So when we read Ephesians 2 to sort of get information about what unbelievers are like, give me a theological understanding of what unbelievers are like.
Sorry, about the formative dimensions of certain texts when I was talking about the first part of Ephesians 2 and just in response to Danny's email about how does my contention that Ephesians 2 is sort of a theology, is part of a narrative theology informing and shaping the identity of God's people.
But Danny sent an email back and said that, yeah, it was addressing what he was getting at.
And in about two sentences, he said what I was trying to say far more effectively than I was trying to capture it.
But I was thinking about how he had said it was really interesting that yes, indeed, biblical texts are designed to form the identity and the self-conception of the people of God.
And unfortunately, I think in a modern context, and I don't mean simply by modern, I don't mean like today or like in the last 30 years.
I really mean, like, say, like the last 500 years in a modern context where sort of in a in a reformational and post-reformational context.
That has exalted cognition and has exalted the mind and has kind of forgotten about, um, the communal dimensions of, of, uh, biblical texts and the, the community forming dimensions of biblical passages, but in a, in a cultural era that has exalted the mind.
So like so many people in the West, so many Christian folks in the West grapple with biblical texts in order to sort of grab information.
And Danny was just mentioning, I thought this was really well put, that when a biblical text is taken to do other work than what it was designed to do, it can be malforming.
So when we read Ephesians 2 to sort of get information about what unbelievers are like, give me a theological understanding of what unbelievers are like.
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