To put it into later terms, had Paul known of the distinction between the fides qua creditur (the faith by which it is believed, that is, trust) and the fides quae creditur (the faith which is believed, that is, content), he could well have understood it. But he would not have taken these distinctions to name fundamental differences in “faith.” Rather, for Paul, trust simply was trust in the life-giving power of the God who raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead even when things appeared to the clear-eyed to indicate the foolishness of that trust. In the meantime between the now of new
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