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Zusatztext this is an excellent work. It is well written, thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and will no doubt be of great use, not only for scholars interested in pistis/fides, but also for those who desire a model of doing sociological research in antiquity. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 mentalités of Hellenistic Judaism and the early Roman empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
