A Map of Understanding: The Riskiness of Trust in the World of the Early Christians

Faith is an important concept in early Christianity. But what did the word pistis (and its Latin equivalent fides) mean in the everyday language of Greeks and Romans? In her important study, Teresa Morgan rightly insists that we need to pay as much attention to the way words worked in the mentalité...

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Main Author: Alexander, Loveday (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2018, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 276-288
Review of:Roman faith and Christian faith (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) (Alexander, Loveday)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Classical antiquity / New Testament / Faith
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
HC New Testament
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Book review
B Bible. New Testament
B Faith
B Romans
B Fides / Pistis
B Trust
B BELIEF & doubt
B mentalité
B Relationship
B Church History Primitive & early church, ca. 30-600
B trustworthy
B risky
B Communication
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Summary:Faith is an important concept in early Christianity. But what did the word pistis (and its Latin equivalent fides) mean in the everyday language of Greeks and Romans? In her important study, Teresa Morgan rightly insists that we need to pay as much attention to the way words worked in the mentalité of the wider social world with which Christians were seeking to communicate as we do to the ways they are used in the New Testament. This article seeks to summarize Morgan's understanding of pistis in the classical world and its impact on NT texts, focusing on the two major themes of pistis as relationship (believing/trusting in) and pistis as propositional belief (believing that).
ISSN:1745-5294
Reference:Kritik in "Faith in Dialogue (2018)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18755910