Teresa Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6042-8349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1881 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancient Religiosities in Dialogue: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian
This collection of essays by Teresa Morgan brings ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian religiosities into dialogue with one another and with their social and cultural contexts. Spanning a thousand years of history and every level of society, it explores how peoples across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East thought about the divine, and how they thought God or the gods thought about them. Teresa Morgan investigates the theology and eth…
Histories of Early Christianity/Christianities
This essay discusses the recent history and current state of the study of early Christianityor Christianities and offers some suggestions for future directions of travel.It considers whether historical Jesus research should be included in studies of earlyChristianity; what is at stake in different definitions of primitive or early; and theongoing, still under-acknowledged effects of Christian confessionalism on the field.It surveys some key theme…
The Literate Education of Early Christians, and Some of Its Unintended Consequences for Christian Exegesis
The landscape of education under the early Roman principate was very diverse, but the teaching of literacy was dominated by scribal training or Graeco-Roman enkyklios paideia, “literate education”. This essay asks what kind of education the earliest Christian writers had, and offers some neglected evidence, which, it suggests, may also be evidence for Hellenistic Jewish education. It considers the role of imitation in Christian education, and how…
Education in Late Antiquity
The Transfiguration (Mark 9
The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-8) and the Raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44)
Origen’s Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity
Celsus is important evidence for Middle Platonist thought over the nature of the demiurge. This paper argues that he identified the demiurge with an impersonal first principle, the form of the good. In showing how the evidence for Celsus helps to explain the metaphysics at work in this model, it aims to remove doubt that it is a model widely shared by other Platonists.
The Material Gospel
The Material Gospel
Rüpke, Jörg (2020). Urban Religion
Among scholars of greek and Roman religions, Jrg Rpke stands out for the breadth and seriousness of his engagement with the study of religions as a discipline, together with theology, sociology, and human geography. over many years he has convened groups of scholars of religions eastern and western, ancient and modern, in productive collaborations -intellectually, and in terms of publications -and these collaborations in turn have enriched his wr…
Two Aspects of Early Christian Faith
‘Faith’ is one of Christianity's most significant, distinctive and complex concepts and practices, but Christian understandings of faith in the patristic period have received surprisingly little attention. This article explores two aspects of what Augustine terms fides qua , ‘the faith by which believers believe’. From the early second century, belief in the truth of doctrine becomes increasingly significant to Christians; by the fourth, affirmin…
Being 'in Christ' in the Letters of Paul
In this study, Teresa Morgan offers a radically new interpretation of 'in Christ'and related expressions in the undisputed letters of Paul. Starting from a reassessment of Deissmann's Die neutestamentliche Formel »in Christo Jesu« , she argues that Deissmann's philology is flawed, the Schweitzerian concept of 'participation in Christ' which is indebted to it is problematic, and many contemporary accounts of participation are better understood in …
Response to my commentators
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…
Introduction to Roman Faith and Christian Faith
This brief introduction outlines the main themes and arguments of Roman Faith and Christian Faith
Roman Faith and Christian Faith
These three short papers were delivered at the 72nd General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, held in Pretoria, South Africa, on 8–11 August 2017. The ‘Quaestiones disputatae’ session was chaired by the President of the Society, Professor Michael Wolter. The first two papers engage with Teresa Morgan's book, Roman Faith and Christian Faith, and Professor Morgan responds to them in the third
Trust
In the past twenty years, trust has become a major topic of public and academic debate: what it is; how it operates; whether we have lost it; how we can recover it. In this powerful and challenging contribution, Geoffrey Hosking argues that western democracy is in the throes of a real crisis of trust, by which we are even more endangered than we realise. At the same time, trust must be understood in historical context. There has never been a ‘gol…
Living with the Gods in Fables of the Early Roman Empire
This essay builds on work by the author on ancient cognitive religiosity and the Aesopic corpus. Focusing on fables datable to the early principate, it argues that, despite their debt to Aesop, their representations of divine-human relations are in some ways distinctive. Three fables are read closely to show the complexities of religious thinking, particularly about relations between individuals and gods, that may be embedded in apparently naive …
Encyclopaediasof virtue?
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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how t…
Divine-Human Relations in the Aesopic Corpus
This paper argues that Aesopic fables are an under-used but valuable resource for the study of Graeco-Roman cognitive religiosity. The world of fables is ruled by a restricted group of divinities – an ‘oligotheon’ – dominated by Zeus, the largely benign creator who gives living beings their characteristic qualities and regulates their behaviour. Divine-human relations typically take place informally and/or in private, rather than in public and/or…
Schooltexts
Education, Homer in
Les Grammariens Lascifs
Les Grammariens Lascifs
Patterns
For man is in this world as in a ship that is crossing the great ocean and seems to be breaking apart. Zohar In this chapter we draw together the main threads of the argument so far, in order to see more clearly the shape of early imperial popular morality. A number of topics have emerged as important in all four genres. Most of them can be divided broadly into two spheres: the relationship between human life and the metaphysical, including the g…
Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as…
Bridget Jones's Theology Reflections on Involuntary Singleness
Two Aspects of Early Christian Faith
‘Faith’ is one of Christianity's most significant, distinctive and complex concepts and practices, but Christian understandings of faith in the patristic period have received surprisingly little attention. This article explores two aspects of what Augustine terms fides qua , ‘the faith by which believers believe’. From the early second century, belief in the truth of doctrine becomes increasingly significant to Christians; by the fourth, affirmin…
On Some Antiquities At Higham in Kent
On the West Saxons in Wiltshire
Some Flowers of Chivalry and Fields of Rue
On the Twentieth Legion as Illustrated by Consular Denarii
Notes on a Roman Villa Near Yatton, Somerset
The Rose of Provence and Lilies of France, in a Vision of Lincoln
England and Castille in the Fourteenth Century Compared
Woman without a body
Advent Sunday
Tragedy in the Papyri
Educational Values
The chapter shows how despite being an unsystematic miscellany, the Attic Nights can be seen as an educational and ethical text. Taken as a whole, Gellius' collection of pieces of knowledge and anecdotes presents education as worth having, enjoyable, social, useful, and moral in a world in which belonging to a group is one of the prime rewards of education. In particular, grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, and law are all socially functional and wort…
Bridget Jones's Theology Reflections on Involuntary Singleness
Patterns
For man is in this world as in a ship that is crossing the great ocean and seems to be breaking apart. Zohar In this chapter we draw together the main threads of the argument so far, in order to see more clearly the shape of early imperial popular morality. A number of topics have emerged as important in all four genres. Most of them can be divided broadly into two spheres: the relationship between human life and the metaphysical, including the g…
Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as…
Les Grammariens Lascifs
Les Grammariens Lascifs
Schooltexts
Education, Homer in
Encyclopaediasof virtue?
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how t…
Divine-Human Relations in the Aesopic Corpus
This paper argues that Aesopic fables are an under-used but valuable resource for the study of Graeco-Roman cognitive religiosity. The world of fables is ruled by a restricted group of divinities – an ‘oligotheon’ – dominated by Zeus, the largely benign creator who gives living beings their characteristic qualities and regulates their behaviour. Divine-human relations typically take place informally and/or in private, rather than in public and/or…
Living with the Gods in Fables of the Early Roman Empire
This essay builds on work by the author on ancient cognitive religiosity and the Aesopic corpus. Focusing on fables datable to the early principate, it argues that, despite their debt to Aesop, their representations of divine-human relations are in some ways distinctive. Three fables are read closely to show the complexities of religious thinking, particularly about relations between individuals and gods, that may be embedded in apparently naive …
Trust
In the past twenty years, trust has become a major topic of public and academic debate: what it is; how it operates; whether we have lost it; how we can recover it. In this powerful and challenging contribution, Geoffrey Hosking argues that western democracy is in the throes of a real crisis of trust, by which we are even more endangered than we realise. At the same time, trust must be understood in historical context. There has never been a ‘gol…
Response to my commentators
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…
Introduction to Roman Faith and Christian Faith
This brief introduction outlines the main themes and arguments of Roman Faith and Christian Faith
Art (19 works) · History (18 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Theology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works)