Ebook: Faith as Participation: An Exegetical Study of Some Key Pauline Texts
Author: Jeanette Hagen Pifer
- Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 486
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
- Language: English
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In recent years, three particular debates have risen to the fore of Pauline Studies: the question of the centre of Pauline theology, how to interpret the πίστις Χριστοῦ formula, and the relationship between divine and human agency. In the present study, Jeanette Hagen Pifer contends that several of the apparent conundrums in recent Pauline scholarship turn out to derive from an inadequate understanding of what Paul means by faith. By first exploring the question of what Paul means by faith outside of the classic justification passages in Romans and Galatians, she reveals faith as an active and productive mode of human existence. Yet this existence is not a form of human self-achievement. On the contrary, faith is precisely the denial of self-effort and a dependence upon the prior gracious work of Christ. In this way, faith is self-negating and self-involving participation in the Christ-event.
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