By framing this chapter in terms of “unfaith” and “lack of trust”, Peters avoided a multitude of sins.  What multitude?  It seems to me that most sins are not committed for lack of “faith”, but in a surplus of “faith” that is not Christian.

Perhaps I can depict this alternate faith as faith^UnChristian.

With that, I can turn Peters’ final formalism around.

“Faith^UnChristian” tells us what is “unacceptable”.  “Faith^UnChristian” makes xiety possible.  This gives rise to anxiety: The fear of the loss of one’s xiety, the life that one has, that one could have, or that one pretends to have; according to one’s faith^UnChristian.