This is the first Eerdmans edition of Tilling's 2012 WUNT volume (2/323), which itself was a ligh... more This is the first Eerdmans edition of Tilling's 2012 WUNT volume (2/323), which itself was a lightly revised version of his PhD thesis written under the supervision of Max Turner at the London School of Theology. In this stimulating monograph, Tilling argues, in interaction (and basic agreement) with Hurtado, Bauckham, and Fee in particular, that a hitherto unappreciated constellation of features in Paul, and the way in which this constellation relates to the same constellation in ancient Judaism, reflects the most allembracing and fundamental category of Pauline Christology: the "Christ-relation." For Tilling, the Pauline "Christ-relation" is the "pattern of … language in Paul [that] is only that which a Jew used to express the relation between Israel/the individual Jew and YHWH" (73, emphasis original).
The pistis Christou debate involves numerous debate partners and a shockingly voluminous amount o... more The pistis Christou debate involves numerous debate partners and a shockingly voluminous amount of secondary literature. At this point, I thought it necessary to provide a survey of the current state of the debate, not least so as to summarize in one place the main arguments for both sides of the debate. At the beginning of the article I gather together and present the main arguments for those advocating an objective reading of the phrase, while the second half of the essay mainly involves a presentation of the arguments for the subjective camp. Having provided this summary, with many comments of my own alongside, I conclude by emphasizing the two pieces of evidence that seem still to push in the direction of the subjective construal. When the survey comes to a close, I arrive at the conclusion that, while debate is certainly not over, those advocating a subjective reading of the expression have the momentum of the scholarly guild.
This is the first Eerdmans edition of Tilling's 2012 WUNT volume (2/323), which itself was a ligh... more This is the first Eerdmans edition of Tilling's 2012 WUNT volume (2/323), which itself was a lightly revised version of his PhD thesis written under the supervision of Max Turner at the London School of Theology. In this stimulating monograph, Tilling argues, in interaction (and basic agreement) with Hurtado, Bauckham, and Fee in particular, that a hitherto unappreciated constellation of features in Paul, and the way in which this constellation relates to the same constellation in ancient Judaism, reflects the most allembracing and fundamental category of Pauline Christology: the "Christ-relation." For Tilling, the Pauline "Christ-relation" is the "pattern of … language in Paul [that] is only that which a Jew used to express the relation between Israel/the individual Jew and YHWH" (73, emphasis original).
The pistis Christou debate involves numerous debate partners and a shockingly voluminous amount o... more The pistis Christou debate involves numerous debate partners and a shockingly voluminous amount of secondary literature. At this point, I thought it necessary to provide a survey of the current state of the debate, not least so as to summarize in one place the main arguments for both sides of the debate. At the beginning of the article I gather together and present the main arguments for those advocating an objective reading of the phrase, while the second half of the essay mainly involves a presentation of the arguments for the subjective camp. Having provided this summary, with many comments of my own alongside, I conclude by emphasizing the two pieces of evidence that seem still to push in the direction of the subjective construal. When the survey comes to a close, I arrive at the conclusion that, while debate is certainly not over, those advocating a subjective reading of the expression have the momentum of the scholarly guild.
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