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S3 EP:19 - What is Faith? With Dr. Teresa Morgan

Everyday Theology

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What's the Most Interesting Thing About Trust in Early Christianity?

The word the main word in Greek for trust you just mentioned is pistis in Latin it's fiddays and those are ideas which very early Christians take and develop so that they mean something very distinctive. So I thought I can do a set I can take a wide look at how trust works in ancient society in the early Redmond Empire and then I can look at how one little micro society takes it and does something very distinctive with it. That was the origin of that book really I was trying to I was looking at sort of trust in general and then trust in this very distinctive little society which is early ChristianityYeah no I think I think that's fascinating because when we think about kind of trust

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