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This study argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament, displaying trust between God, Christ, and humanity as a risky, dynamic, forward-looking, life-changing partnership.
List of contents
- 1: 'Trust is the foundation of things hoped for': The New Testament and the study of trust
- 2: 'The one who calls you is trustworthy': The pistis of God
- 3: 'So we preached and so you believed': Pistis between God, the risen and exalted Christ, and the faithful
- 4: 'The righteousness of God has been revealed ... through the pistis of Jesus Christ, for all who trust': Trust and atonement
- 5: 'Because you have seen me, you have trusted': The trustworthiness of Jesus Christ in his earthly life
- 6: 'Your trust has saved you': Coming to trust
- 7: 'Guard this rich trust': The entrustedness of the faithful
- 8: 'This saying is trustworthy...': Propositional trust in the divine-human relationship
- 9: 'I trusted, therefore I spoke': Concluding Reflections
About the author
Teresa Morgan is Professor of Graeco-Roman history at the University of Oxford and McDonald Agape Professor-elect of New Testament and Early Christianity at Yale Divinity School. She studied Classics at Cambridge University and Theology at Oxford University, and held Junior Research Fellowships at St John's College, Cambridge, Newham College, Cambridge, and from the British Academy. She was Fellow and Tutor in ancient history at University College, Oxford, before serving for over twenty years as Professor of Graeco-Roman history and Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in ancient history at Oriel College, Oxford.
Summary
This study argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament, displaying trust between God, Christ, and humanity as a risky, dynamic, forward-looking, life-changing partnership.
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Her work presents a challenge to biblical studies and to Christian theology generally, and anyone seriously interested in either will only benefit by engaging with it.
