Format:
XI, 626 Seiten
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0198724144
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9780198724148
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [515] - 594) and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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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.
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Morgan, Teresa, 1968 - Roman faith and Christian faith Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780191791956
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Glaube
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Bibel Neues Testament
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Frühchristentum
Author information:
Morgan, Teresa 1968-
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