The Obedience of Faith

This is from Don Garlington’s PHD dissertation:  The Obedience Of Faith:

“The (phrase) ‘obedience of faith’ is primarily a commitment to God’s covenant as embodied in the totality of the law of Moses; disobedience correspondingly, is predominately apostasy from the covenant.  Because of this denotation of the ‘obedience of faith’ in Jewish theology, Paul’s phrase assumes the character of a manifesto that the nations can now participate in God’s new covenant apart from becoming or remaining Jewish.”