"The Faith of Jesus Christ" represents an attempt to grapple with one of the most perplexing problems in Pauline studies, namely that of the phrase "pistis christou." Issues of considerable theological import hinge on how we interpret it (does it mean "faith "in "Christ" or "the faithfulness "of "Ch[...]
Ever since E. P. Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, students of Paul have been probing, weighing and debating the similarities and dissimilarities between the understandings of salvation in Judaism and in Paul. Do they really share a common notion of divine and human agency? Or [...]