Roman Faith and Christian Faith
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-872414-8 (ISBN)
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 mentalités 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.
Teresa Morgan is Professor of Graeco-Roman History in the Faculty of Classics, Oxford University, and Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College. She is a historian of Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture and mentalité; previous books include Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998), and Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire (2007). She is a self-supporting priest in the Parish of Littlemore, Oxford.
1: Introduction: Approaching pistis and fides in the Graeco-Roman world, Hellenistic Judaism, and early churches 2: Greek and Roman Pistis and Fides I: domestic and personal relations 3: Greek and Roman Pistis and Fides II: structures of state 4: Pistis and Fides in Graeco-Roman Religiosity 5: Pistis in the Septuagint 6: Pistis and the Earliest Christian Preaching 7: Pistis in Galatians, Romans, Philippians, and Philemon 8: Pistis in Non-Pauline Letters 9: Pistis in the Synoptic Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles 10: Pisteuein and its Relations in the Johannine Corpus 11: Relationality and Interiority in Pistis and Fides 12: Pistis, Fides and the Structure of Divine-Human Communities Conclusion
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2015 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 1102 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-872414-4 / 0198724144 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-872414-8 / 9780198724148 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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