Bates, Abraham, and allegiance in the gospel
At the Logos Academic Blog, Tavis Bohlinger has part 4 in his interview series with Matthew Bates about Batesās recently releasedĀ Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the KingĀ (Baker, 2017). Bates comments, in part,
My preference for āallegianceā springs from the conviction that the proclaimed gospel centered on Jesus the royal messiah, and this suggests that the āallegianceā portion of the range of meaning of pistis is in play in some crucial New Testament texts pertaining to salvationā¦. It is extremely unlikely that Paul felt that pistis was something that was ultimately in tension with or contradictory to embodied activity (i.e., good works as a general category). Paulās complaint with works (of Law) lies elsewhere, as I explain in Ch. 5.
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