Amazon description: "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."
@Ben, I could be mistaken, but I think this might be of interest to you. Just a hunch.
Logos already lists the workbook, but lacks the award winning title that is its base. Please add this work. Thanks!
Hi is there any chance that you can add the Easy English bible version to the ones on sale. I would love to purchase it at it is a good translation to show people a simplified version of things.
Subtitle: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches. A book-length treatment of what the words pistis (Greek) and fides (Latin) meant in Paul's time. Morgan is a classicist, formerly at Oxford and now at Yale.
This would be a good start for publishing his books in Logos. I would personally love to see more.
"… Long before Jesus arrived, God had already given Israel a sacrificial system — not to appease an angry deity — but to teach, heal, and restore His people. Blood was never about violence or wrath — it was about life (Leviticus 17:11). Sacrifice was not about satisfying divine rage — it was about drawing near. Atonement…
