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Christian ‘faith’ is a unique concept, with meanings including belief, trust, faithfulness, confidence, the body of Christian teaching, the ‘eyes of faith’, the ‘leap of faith’, worship, prayer, and Christianity as a whole. But the ancient terms which come to describe faith (pistis in Greek, fides in Latin) originally have rather different meanings, so how did the concept of Christian faith develop – what shaped its development – and how does understanding its history help us to reflect on the nature of faith today?

This lecture was given at Saint Mary's University on October 17th, 2024. The speaker is Revd. Dr. Teresa Morgan of Yale University.

Teresa Morgan studied Classics at Cambridge University, Theology at Oxford, and violin and viola in London and Cologne. Since 2022 she has been McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Yale University. Among her many books she is currently completing a series of four monographs on the history and theology of early Christian faith: Roman Faith and Christian Faith (2015), The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (2022), Trust in Atonement (2024), and Faith in the Making (forthcoming). She is an Anglican priest and a published poet.

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