ROMAN FAITH AND CHRISTIAN FAITH by Teresa Morgan ( 9780198724148 )

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ROMAN FAITH AND CHRISTIAN FAITH
PISTIS AND FIDES IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE AND EARLY CHURCHES

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Teresa Morgan

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0198724144

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 May, 2015

Pages:

640

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This book begins with the question why 'faith' (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that it dominated their earliest writings. It argues that the study of emerging Christian pistis/fides must be interdisciplinary, located in the social practices and mentalites of Hellenistic Judaism and the early Roman empire.

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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;

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