THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK I. THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK—The Apostle Paul The unanimous belief of the early church was that Paul was the author of Ephesians. This belief was not questioned until the early part of the nineteenth century when liberal and radical critics, whose chief calling seems to have been to attack everything Biblical, began to question and then to deny the Pauline authorship of Ephesians. These attacks, ably answered by conservative scholars, have subsided