Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Content, structure, genre, style -- Relation to Colossians and the rest of the Pauline corpus -- Authorship, pseudonymity, canon -- Setting and purposes -- The thought of Ephesians -- Prescript -- Blessing of God for his salvation in Christ -- Thanksgiving with prayer for believers' knowledge of God and their awareness of the church's significance -- God's gracious salvation as resurrection and exaltation with Christ -- The gaining of the Gentiles' privileges of participation in God's new Temple through Christ's reconciliation -- Paul as minister of the mystery to the Gentiles -- Further prayer : for the completeness of the readers' experience of God : with doxology -- The church's calling to maintenance of the unity it already possesses -- Exhortation to live according to the new humanity rather than the old -- Practical injunctions about the old and new life -- From darkness to light -- Wise and Spirit-filled living -- Household relationships : wives and husbands -- Household relationships : children and parents -- Household relationships : slaves and masters -- Concluding appeal to stand firm in the battle against spiritual powers -- Postscript.