{"product_id":"roman-faith-and-christian-faith","title":"Roman Faith and Christian Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 mentalités 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\n\u003cbr\u003eof 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\n\u003cbr\u003eeconomics, 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\n\u003cbr\u003eevolution 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\n\u003cbr\u003eof 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060704923886,"sku":"9780198724148","price":353.53,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198724148.jpg?v=1736518328","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/roman-faith-and-christian-faith","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}