TY - BOOK ID - 3500597 TI - Roman faith and Christian faith : "Pistis" and "Fides" in the early Roman empire and early churches AU - Morgan, Teresa AU - Oxford University Press PY - 2015 SN - 9780198724148 0198724144 0191791954 PB - London Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Faith KW - Christianity and culture KW - Church history KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Religion. KW - Glaube. KW - Frühchristentum. KW - Tro. KW - Fornkyrkan. KW - History of doctrines KW - History KW - Roman. KW - Romerska riket. KW - Römisches Reich. KW - 225.08*3 KW - Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: themata KW - 225.08*3 Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: themata KW - Römisches Reich KW - Faith - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Christianity and culture - History - Early church, ca 30-600 KW - Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Christianity and other religions - Roman. KW - Frühchristentum. KW - Römisches Reich. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3500597 AB - 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. ER -