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Response to my commentators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2018

TERESA J. MORGAN*
Affiliation:
Oriel College, Oxford, OX1 4EW, UK

Abstract

Responding to key questions raised by the other three, this article discusses the factors which led to the development of Christian fideism and why Christians were seen as a threat to wider society. It considers whether early Christian discourses always represent (of characters in narratives), or demand, belief alongside trust and other relational aspects of pistis, and argues that it is sometimes possible to have effective pistis without having right beliefs. It discusses the variable relationship between belief and doubt in New Testament texts, and suggests how the faith of St Teresa of Calcutta might have been viewed by early Christians.

Type
Book Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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