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Pistis / Creature Politics / Relationships Good Enough to Trust

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Mar 14, 2024
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Whenever we read the noun faith or the verb to believe in Paul's letters, we are reading one and the same Greek word: pistis. 

What Paul means by this word, and how he uses it, is something scholars will debate and disagree continuously.

My reading of Romans, as a kind of creature politics, involves a particular understanding of pistis. Pistis as a kind o…

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