O Woman, Great is Your Faith!

Douglas Sean O'Donnell

O Woman, Great is Your Faith!
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Country
United States
Published
26 August 2021
Pages
310
ISBN
9781725295902

O Woman, Great is Your Faith!

Douglas Sean O'Donnell

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The concept of
faith
holds a central position in New Testament and early Christian thought, yet this concept has not received the careful attention it deserves in the Synoptic Gospels. The present study offers a comprehensive analysis of
faith
as a key motif in the Gospel of Matthew, where it plays a major role in communicating this Gospel’s vision for how readers should respond to the person and message of Jesus. The argument propounded is that Matthew’s unique narrative portrayal of the Canaanite woman’s faith (15:21-28) is used for pedagogical purposes, namely, that by comparing and contrasting her
great faith
with those characters expressing
no faith
and
little faith,
Matthew uses Jesus’s quantitative

-terms to teach on the nature of true faith. She embodies Matthew’s theological vision of faith! Even though she is a gentile outsider/enemy, she comprehends the universal scope and abundant blessings of Jesus’s mission. Moreover, she acknowledges Jesus’s messianic identity, correctly perceiving him to be both David’s royal heir and David’s Lord. Finally, based on who she perceives Jesus to be and the purpose of his mission, she demonstrates faith as trust manifested in action.

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