of Paul’s gospel. Faith and hope are not merely synonymous in the sense that both terms participate in the attitude of trust as the religious stance of the believer. Rather they are interrelated because both are directed to the object of the hope—which is God’s vindication at the end-time. “Faith in Christ” then is an abbreviation for “faith in the God who in Christ’s death and resurrection has redeemed us from the bondage of sin, and has transferred us to the dominion of his righteousness” (Rom.