RT Review
T1 Pistis as Relational Way of Life in Galatians
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 40
IS 3
SP 255
OP 275
A1 Oakes, Peter
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1576142388
AB Using the Septuagint as an example, this article supports Teresa Morgan's recent contention that pistis is essentially relational. On the basis of the prevalence of relationality, the article offers a critique of readings of Galatians that privilege other concepts, such as Benjamin Schliesser's emphasis on spatiality. The study then argues that, instead of Morgan's ‘pistis is a relationship', it would be more accurate and exegetically useful to bring out the action-reference of pistis with an expression such as ‘pistis is a relational way of life'. The article will argue that the most likely relational reading of pistis in Galatians is one in which pistis primarily represents trust, loyalty and/or trustworthiness in the relationship between the current Christ and people. This raises questions over the focus of pistis on past events in the work of scholars such as Richard Hays and John Barclay. If pistis christou is to be read as involving an ‘objective genitive' it probably denotes people's trust in and loyalty to Christ and also possibly to God through Christ. If it is to be read as a ‘subjective genitive', it would probably primarily denote Christ's current reliability and loyalty in his relationship to people, and conceivably also to God. Various directions of pistis between people, Christ and God are possible in Galatians but the one most often clearly evidenced is between people and Christ.
K1 Bible. Galatians
K1 Bible. Old Testament. Greek. Septuagint
K1 FAITHFULNESS of God
K1 Galatians
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Paul
K1 Pistis
K1 SCHLIESSER, Benjamin
K1 Faith
K1 Faithfulness
K1 Trust
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1177/0142064X18755933