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Oct 17, 2022 · This reading of pistis Christou is ubiquitous among the early church fathers and early native Greek speakers—they always use it to refer to the Christ-faith. 2.b. Romans 3:20–22. Each of the passages in the New Testament with the pistis Christou phrase has a similar polemical flavor as the Acts of Peter. However, instead of a pagan ...
Mar 3, 2014 · The Greek formulation pistis Christou (or a related genitive construction) occurs seven times in the undisputed Pauline letters (see Table 26.1). What links all seven of these phrases together is (1) a preposition (e.g., dia, ek, en ), (2) Paul’s use of pistis (faith/faithfulness), and (3) the genitive form of Christ (or some other reference to the person Jesus Christ).
May 3, 2023 · When the apostle Paul uses the Greek phrase pistis christou, which has “Christ” in the genitive case, should it be translated as “faith in Christ” (objective genitive) or “faith of Christ” (subjective genitive). This is important to the understanding of Philippians 3:9.
Jan 9, 2012 · For a generation, the discussion has been raging in academic circles over whether the Greek phrase pistis Christou should be understood as meaning ‘faith in Christ’ or ‘faithfulness of Christ’. For almost all interpreters until the last few decades, the question hasn’t really been a question: it means ‘faith in Christ’ (the ‘objective genitive’ reading, since Christ is the ...
Jul 25, 2018 · This is why pistis (making the pledge of covenant loyalty and faithfulness) was such a big deal. Yes, it was the means by which God considered a person to be His and declares that person to be in right relationship with Him but it was also something that had huge ramification because of the society the convert was living in at the time. Pisteos ...
Aug 13, 2022 · I take the Greek phrase pistis Christou to mean “trust in Christ.” “Trust” is a better word than “faith” since it evokes a relationship, and what Paul is talking about is not belief in a set of impersonal truths but personal dependence on what God has effected in the death and resurrection of Jesus. In recent years, many Pauline ...
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Feb 5, 2009 · page 336 note 1 The Greek word πίστις has a wide range of meaning which certainly includes both ‘faith’ and ‘faithfulness’. This is in no way denied by J. Barr (op. cit. p. 202), whose devastating attack (pp. 161–205) on the linguistic arguments of Herbert and Torrance played an important part in the reaction against their interpretation of πίστις Χριστοû.
