Table of Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations xv
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1 The Meaning of Faith 2
1.1 Martin Luther (1531) 2
1.2 Adolf Schlatter (1885) 4
1.3 Rudolf Bultmann (1952) 5
1.4 Fritz Neugebauer (1961) 6
1.5 Teresa Morgan (2015) 7
1.6 Summary: A Consensus on the Pauline Conception of Faith? 9
2 The Centre of Paul's Theology 11
2.1 William Wrede (1904) 12
2.2 Albert Schweitzer (1930) 13
2.3 E. P. Sanders (1977) 14
2.4 Ernst Kasemann (1969) 16
2.5 Summary: Pauline Centres? 17
3 Πιστιvarsigma; Ξριστου 18
3.1 Richard Hays (1983) 19
3.2 Moma Hooker (1989) 21
3.3 Douglas Campbell (1992) 23
3.4 James Dunn (1997) 24
3.5 Barry Matlock (2000) 26
3.6 Summary: Πιστιν Ξριστου 28
4 Divine/Human Agency 29
4.1 Rudolf Bultmann: The Indicative/Imperative Paradigm (1924) 30
4.2 Karl Barth: Covenant Partners with God (1956) 30
4.3 John Barclay (2006) 32
4.4 Summary: Human or/and Divine Agency? 33
5 Faith as Participation 34
5.1 Axel von Dobbeler (1986) 34
5.2 David Hay (2006) 35
5.3 Douglas Campbell (2014) 36
5.4 Summary: Participation by Faith? 36
6 Methodology 37
Chapter 2 Faith and Participation in 1 Thessalonians 39
1 Centrality of Faith in Paul's Theology (1 Thess 1-3) 40
1.1 Faith as the Primary Identifier of Christians 40
1.2 Active Faith 43
1.3 Actively Passive Receiving 44
1.4 The Basis of Faith: The Power of God 46
1.5 Evidence of Faith 46
1.5.1 Re-identification with the Christ-event 47
1.5.2 Standing in Christ 50
1.5.3 Growing in Faith 52
1.5.4 Suffering with Joy 55
1.6 Conclusion 55
2 Faith as Participation (1 Thess 4-5) 56
2.1 Participation in the future resurrection (4:13-18) 57
2.1.1 Interpretative Issue 1 : Logical or Conditional? 57
2.1.2 Interpretative Issue 2: δια τσυ 'Ιησου αξει or κοιμηθενταν δια τσυ 'Ιησου? 58
2.1.3 Conclusions 60
2.2 The Future Orientation of Faith (5:1-11) 61
2.3 Faith in the Faithful One (5:23-24) 62
3 Conclusion 63
Chapter 3 Faith and Participation in 1 Corinthians 64
1 Faith as Participation in 1 Corinthians 1-2 64
1.1 Boasting and Faith (1:26-31) 65
1.2 πιστιν is Rooted in the Power of God in Christ Crucified (2:1-5) 72
1.3 Summary of 1 Corinthians 1-2 74
2 Faith as Participation in 1 Corinthians 15 74
2.1 Subjective Features of Faith (15:1-2) 75
2.1.1 Receiving (παραλαμβανω) 76
2.1.2 "Standing in the Gospel" 76
2.1.3 Holding Fast in Faith (κατεχω) 77
2.1.4 Being Saved 78
2.1.5 Summary 79
2.2 The Objective Basis of Faith (1 Cor 15:1-20) 79
2.3 The Future Hope of Faith (15:19-23, 42-29, 52-53, 58) 83
3 Conclusion 85
Chapter 4 Faith and Participation in 2 Corinthians 87
1 Participation in Suffering (2 Cor 1-3) 88
1.1 Hermeneutical Key: Faith as Reliance (πεποιθησιν) on God (2 Cor 1:9) 88
1.2 Confidence through Weakness and Incompetence (2:14-3:6) 91
1.3 Paul's Own Faithfulness Rooted in the Faithfulness of God 94
1.4 Faith: Self-Involving Dependence (1:24) 95
1.5 Summary 96
2 Faith: Anthropology and Christology (2 Cor 4:7-15) 96
2.1 Participation through Christ 97
2.2 Spirit of Faith 100
2.2.1 The Spirit of Christ's Faith? 101
2.2.2 Campbell's Conception of Faith 105
2.2.3 The Pauline Conception of Faith 106
2.2.3.1 The "Spirit" of Faith: Divine Priority 106
2.2.3.2 Faith Acts 107
2.2.3.3 Self-giving Faith: Ministry for the Other 108
2.2.4 Summary 109
2.3 Faith: Confident Knowing 109
2.4 New Creation and Reconciliation in Christ 111
2.5 Summary: Participation by Faith 113
3 A Confident Boast (2 Cor 10-13) 115
3.1 Boasting in Weakness 115
3.2 Boasting in the Lord 116
4 Conclusion 117
Chapter 5 Galatians 2:15-21 119
1 Recent Apocalyptic Readings of Galatians 2:15-21 120
1.1 J.Louis Martyn's Apocalyptic Framework 120
1.1.1 δικαιοω 121
1.1.2 εργα νομου 122
1.1.3 πιστιν Χριστου 123
1.1.4 Human Faith 124
1.1.5 Critique of Martyn 125
1.2 Martinus de Boer's Apocalyptic Framework 127
1.2.1 δικαιοω 127
1.2.2 εργα νομου 128
1.2.3 πιστιν Χριστου 129
1.2.4 Human Faith 129
1.2.5 Critique of de Boer 130
2 Exegesis of Galatians 2:15-18 132
2.1 Context 132
2.2 Exegesis of 2:16 133
2.2.1 δικαιοω 133
2.2.2 εργα νομου 137
2.2.3 Πιστιν Χριστου 138
2.2.3.1 Subjective Genitive Arguments 139
2.2.3.2 "Objective Genitive" Reading 141
2.2.3.3 Re-theologising the Objective Genitive 147
2.2.3.4 Agency Clarified 150
2.2.3.5 Πιστιν Χριστου Summary 151
2.2.4 Defining the Antithesis 152
2.3 Galatians 2:17-18 153
2.3.1 Exegesis of 2:17-18 154
2.3.2 Justification: Through Human or Divine Agency? 155
2.3.3 Justification or Participation? Is That the Question? 156
2.3.4 Hermeneutical Key: Faith 158
2.3.5 Galatians 2:17-18 Conclusions 158
2.4 Galatians 2:16-18 Conclusions 159
3 Exegesis of Galatians 2: 19-21 160
3.1 Dying to Live (Gal 2:19a) 160
3.2 The Interpretative Crux: The Revivified "I" (2:19b-20) 163
3.2.1 Χριστω συνεσταυρωμαι (2:19b) 163
3.2.2 The Revivified I Lives in the Mode of Faith (Gal 2:20) 164
3.3 Mode of Faith: Incorporating a Pauline Theology of Participatory Faith 166
3.3.1 Self-involving Dependence 166
3.3.2 Self-negating Dependence 167
3.3.3 Endurance 168
3.3.4 Faith as Participation in Christ's Death and Resurrection 169
3.3.5 Faith as the Nexus of Anthropology and Christology 170
3.4 Participation in Christ's Faithfulness? 171
3.4.1 Richard Hays's Thesis 171
3.4.2 The Indicative/Imperative Paradigm 173
3.5 The Grace of God: Grounding Paul's Theology 174
3.6 Galatians 2:19-21 Summary 175
4 Conclusions from Galatians 2:15-21 175
Chapter 6 Galatians 3-6 178
1 The Human Reception of the Divine Gift 178
1.1 The Spirit and Faith (3:1-5) 178
1.1.1 Receiving the Life-Giving Spirit 178
1.1.2 The Reciprocal Relationship of Faith and the Spirit 181
1.1.3 Receiving the Spirit εξ ακοην πιστεων (3:2, 5) 183
1.2 Scriptural Proofs for the Pattern of Faith (Gal 3:6-14) 186
1.2.1 The Function of the Abraham Narrative: The Paradigm of Faith (3:6-9) 186
1.2.2 Faith is the Chief Identifier of Christians: οι εκ πιστεων (3:7, 9) 188
1.2.3 The Function of the Habakkuk Citation (3:11) 191
1.2.3.1 A Messianic Reading of Habakkuk 2:4? 195
1.2.4 Conclusions from the Scriptural Proofs 198
1.3 The Disambiguation of the Genitive (3:22) 199
1.4 Faith Personified: "Faith Came" and "Faith Revealed" (3:23, 25) 200
1.5 Participatory Faith (Gal 3:26) 203
1.6 Summary 205
2 Participatory Faith: The Primary Believer Act 205
2.1 Faith is the Believer Act from Which All Christian Activity Flows (5:5-6, 16-25) 207
2.2 Πιστιν as the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22) 209
2.3 Summary 210
3 True Christian Identity in Christ 210
4 Conclusion 213
Chapter 7 Conclusion 216
1 The Aim of This Thesis 216
2 Summary of the Thesis 216
2.1 A Multi-faceted Mode of Existence 216
2.2 A Synthesised Pauline Conception of Faith: Self-negating and Self-involving 219
2.3 Clarifications about Faith 220
3 Implications of This Reading 220
3.1 Centre of Paul's Theology 221
3.2 Πιστιν Χριστου 222
3.3 Agency 222
4 Expanding the Discussion 223
4.1 Faith in Romans 224
4.2 Faith in Philippians 227
5 Conclusion 228
Bibliography 229
Index of Ancient Sources 241
Index of Modern Authors 254
Index of Subjects 257
