text, and its “works” are human actions and abstentions prescribed by this text. The Pauline antitheses encapsulate a disagreement about the interpretation of a text, and they thereby presuppose that there is a shared text about which to disagree. While the common reference to scripture preserves the possibility of dialogue between Pauline and non-Pauline soterioiogies, that does not prove that any such dialogue is actually presupposed in Paul’s texts. It is, perhaps, not unusual for a priori dogmatic