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Roman faith and Christian faith : pistis and fides in the early Roman Empire and early churches / Teresa Morgan.

Morgan, Teresa (Teresa Jean), author.
2017
234.230937 M849r 2017
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Title
Roman faith and Christian faith : pistis and fides in the early Roman Empire and early churches / Teresa Morgan.
Author
Morgan, Teresa (Teresa Jean), author.
Edition
First paperback edition.
ISBN
9780198801054 (paperback)
019880105X (paperback)
9780198724148 (hbk.)
0198724144 (hbk.)
Published
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xi, 626 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
234.230937 M849r 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)961415004
(OCoLC)961415004
Summary
"This study investigates why "faith" (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social practices and mentalites of contemporary Judaism and the early Roman empire. This can, therefore, equally be read as a study of the operation of pistis/fides in the world of the early Roman principate, taking one small but relatively well-attested cult as a case study in how micro-societies within that world could treat it distinctively. Drawing on recent work in sociology and economics, the book traces the varying shapes taken by pistis/fides in Greek and Roman human and divine-human relationships: whom or what is represented as easy or difficult to trust or believe in; where pistis/fides is "deferred" and "reified" in practices such as oaths and proofs; how pistis/fides is related to fear, doubt and scepticism; and which foundations of pistis/fides are treated as more or less secure. The book then traces the evolution of representations of human and divine-human pistis in the Septuagint, before turning to pistis/pisteuein in New Testament writings and their role in the development of early Christologies (incorporating a new interpretation of pistis Christou) and ecclesiologies. It argues for the integration of the study of pistis/pisteuein with that of New Testament ethics. It explores the interiority of Graeco-Roman and early Christian pistis/fides. Finally, it discusses eschatological pistis and the shape of the divine-human community in the eschatological kingdom"-- Publisher's website.
Note
Originally published: 2015 (hardback).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-594) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: approaching pistis and fides in the Graeco-Roman world, Hellenistic Judaism, and early churches
Pistis and fides in the world of the early principate I : domestic and personal relations
Pistis and fides in the world of the early principate II : structures of state
Pistis and fides in Graeco-Roman religiosity
Pistis in the Septuagint
Pistis and the earliest Christian preaching
Pistis in Galatians, Romans, Philippians, and Philemon
Pistis in non-Pauline letters
Pistis in the synoptic gospels and the Acts of the Apostles
Pisteuein and its relations in the Johannine Corpus
Relationality and interiority in pistis and fides
Pistis, fides, and the structure of divine
human communities
Conclusion.
Other Editions
Original version: Morgan, Teresa (Teresa Jean) Roman faith and Christian faith. First edition. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015
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