pistis

• “Instead, he makes the defining characteristics the trust in God another meaning of the Greek word pistis that Abraham showed, even though he didn't believe in the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Atoning Sacrifice, or any other doctrine distinctive of Christianity.”

  Community of the Saved, or Salvation of the Community? (A Continuing Bloggersation)

• “What I have is faith (which is translated from the Greek word pistis and is a verb BTW).”

  Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

• “The term used in most New Testament texts (the Greek word pistis) meant something closer to loyalty or commitment, than unreasoning belief.”

  Daily Kos

• “The Koine Greek word pistis doesn't mean blind faith in the modern Hollywood sense of "faith", it means trust, the kind of trust Abraham had with Yahweh, because Yahweh earned his trust.”

  An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings

• “It was related to the Latin libido and used in the King James Bible to translate the Greek pistis "trust; faithfulness; involvement".”

  Archive 2009-07-12

• “In demanding pistis, therefore, Jesus was asking for commitment not credulity: people must give everything to the poor, follow him to the end, and commit totally to the coming Kingdom.”

  Archive 2009-07-12

• “Though much blather has been made of it, we should remember Jesus thought and spoke of “haimanuta,” not “pistis.””

  Mark, James and Q

• “The phrase in Greek, πιστις Χριστου (pistis christou), is the two words "faith(fulness)" and "Christ" with the latter in the genitive.”

  Archive 2008-12-01

• “Earlier in Romans, in 1:17 (which the NIV translates, not unsurprisingly, as "righteousness that is by faith from first to last"), Paul uses a phrase that might be more literally rendered "from faith to faith", and given the range of meanings of pistis the phrase could equally be translated "from (God's/Christ's) faithfulness to (human beings') faith(fulness)".”

  Archive 2008-12-01

• “Rather than try to engage the various arguments found in these other blog posts, and most likely do justice to none of them, let me simply present the best short case I can for why I think an understanding of pistis Christou as "the faithfulness of Christ" is not implausible.”

  The Fidelity of Christ

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