Eklezjologia Listu do Efezjan 1,22b-23

• Authors: Mateusz Nycz

Title variants

EN

Ecclesiology of the Epistle to the Ephesians 1:22b-23

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The epistle to the Ephesians is seen as an ecclesiological scripture among the exegetes. It contains a rather systematic interpretation of what the Church is, what her role and attitude to Christ is. The sentence from Ephesians 1: 22b-23 may pass as the most important passage for the entire ecclesiology of the Letter to the Ephesians.This short passage causes many interpretative difficulties at the grammat-ical level, such as: interpretation of the term pleroume,nou as active or passive par-ticiple, function of the terms evkklesi,a, pa/j and auvtou/ in the syntax and the role of the expression u`pe.r pa,nta in the sentence. In addition, it is necessary to properly read the meaning of the term plh,rwma.The title text has been subjected to grammatical and lexicographical anal-ysis. Such way of analysis allowed for a proper reading of the attitude of Christ to the Church – Christ fills the Church (and not the reverse as it might be judged by a cursory morphological analysis) and only He is the head of the Church. He fills the whole Church of the fruits of his passion, death and resurrection.

Keywords

PL

List do Efezjan; eklezjologia; Kościół; pełnia; głowa; ciało

EN

Ephesians; Ecclesiology; Church; Fullness; Head; Body

• Publisher: Akademia Katolicka w Warszawie
• Journal: Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 46-63

Dates

published

2018-10-14

Contributors

author

Mateusz Nycz

Identifiers

DOI

10.30439/WST.2018.3.3