Tag: Faith
Daily Gleanings: Pistis (6 September 2019)
Daily Gleanings about David Downs and Benjamin Lappenga’s “Faithfulness of the Risen Christ,” which links “pistis Christou” and Jesus’s resurrection.
Daily Gleanings: Faith-Allegiance (3 September 2019)
Daily Gleanings about Matthew Bates’s “Gospel Allegiance,” which follows up on the thesis of “Salvation by Allegiance Alone.”
Faith, demonstration, and friendship
In his On the Advantage of Believing, Augustine reflects on the necessity of belief but also on the danger of being overly credulous. He comments, in part, But now consider, you will say, whether in religion we ought to believe. For even if we concede that it is one thing to believe, another to be credulous,…
Bates, “Salvation by allegiance alone” and some theological forebears
One of the new titles in the recent Baker catalog (due for release this month) is Matthew Bates’s Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King. According to Michael Bird’s blurb, Matthew Bates argues that faith or believing is not mere assent, not easy believism, but covenantal loyalty to the…
Myers on Morgan, “Roman faith and Christian faith”
The Review of Biblical Literature contains Jason Myers’s helpful and appreciative review of Teresa Morgan’s Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches (OUP, 2015).
Gospel and Testimony
In his 2006 Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Richard Bauckham suggests: that we need to recover the sense in which the Gospels are testimony. This does not mean that they are testimony rather than history. It means that the kind of historiography they are is testimony. An irreducible feature of testimony as a form of human utterance is that…