The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative Substructure of Galatians 3:1

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Widely praised as a major contribution to Pauline studies, Richard B. Hays's Faith of Jesus Christ now features, in this expanded second edition, a foreword by Luke Timothy Johnson, a new introduction by Hays, and a substantial dialogue with James D. G. Dunn. In this important study Hays argues against the mainstream that any attempt to account for the nature and method of Paul's theological...

believe that the lexicographers are not making theological judgments about the meaning of the sentences in which the word πίστις appears? The argument of my book is that the conventional judgments of lexicographers and commentators since the Reformation have been mistaken, precisely because they have focused narrowly on the apparent semantic equivalence established in Gal 2:16 and failed to see the larger context provided by Paul’s narrative christology. Matlock nowhere engages the argument in the

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