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A dynamic reading of Paul’s faith language, outlining its subtle nuances as belief, trust, and faithfulness. Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear. Many today, reflecting centuries of interpretation, consider belief in Jesus to be a passive act. In this important book, Nijay Gupta challenges common assumptions in the interpretation of Paul and...

speaking) precisely because it heals the breach, so to speak, between the cognitive aspects of the word’s possible meaning and the active (behavioral/practical) valence of the word. Hays remarks that he prefers “trust” over “have faith” especially because there is a tendency to read faith/belief language as a “subjective attitude of the individual believer” that could mislead readers of Paul into thinking that the apostle places his soteriological emphasis on held beliefs rather than relational trust.
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