Teresa Morgan is an English

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and

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, best known as the author of ''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds'' and ''Roman Faith and Christian Faith''.

Early life and education

Teresa Morgan attended Oxford High School before studying the violin at the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne. She studied as an undergraduate and graduate student at

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the Unive ...

, and as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a research fellow of

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and Newnham College, Cambridge, fellow of University College, Oxford, and Nancy Bissell Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford.Jesus College entry
Since 2022 she has been McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at

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She holds a master's degree ( Master's degree, M.A.) and doctorate ( Ph.D.) from Cambridge, Dip. R.A.M., L.R.A.M., and a master's degree (M.A.) and doctorate ( D.Litt.) from Oxford.

Academic career

Morgan is best known as the author of ''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds'' and ''Roman Faith and Christian Faith''. Her research interests lie in the study of ancient

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

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and contemporary

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. Her books address the relationship between

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and

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in antiquity, cultural and intellectual history and early Christian history and theology. She broadcasts regularly on radio and television and writes for ''The Tablet'', the ''Church Times'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. She is an elected international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Morgan is Professor of Graeco-Roman History in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and Nancy Bissell Turpin

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and Tutor in

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at Oriel College, Oxford. She has served as University Assessor, as an elected member of the governing council of Oxford University, as Associate Head of the Humanities Division of the university, chair of the Faculty of Classics, Chair of several university committees and working groups, and as a trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Morgan is joining Yale Divinity School faculty beginning in 2022 as a McDonald-Agape Professor-elect of New Testament and Early Christianity.

''Roman Faith and Christian Faith''

''Roman Faith and Christian Faith'' (2015) is a much discussed study of how early Christians understood and practised 'faith' (''pistis'', ''fides'' in the languages which dominate early sources). Locating Christian understandings of ''pistis/fides'' in their contexts in Hellenistic Judaism and Graeco-Roman society, the book argues that for early Christians, trust and faithfulness, rather than belief in doctrines or non-rational fideism, were salvific and central to life in a Christian community. Belief and orthodoxy become central to later Christianity through contact with Greek philosophy and religion. In 2017 Morgan received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write a sequel to ''Roman Faith and Christian Faith'', investigating the evolution of Christian faith between the second and fifth centuries CE.

''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds''

Morgan's most cited book, ''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds'' (1998), examines

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

and Roman education and reinterprets the function of literature, grammar and rhetoric in education, as well as looking at Hellenistic and Roman theories of

cognitive development Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult bra ...

.Cambridge University Press entry for ''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds''
/ref> The book is on the reading lists of many university courses and modules in the UK and the United States.

Ordained ministry

Morgan was

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in the

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as a

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in 2002 and as a

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in 2003. Since 2002, she has been a non-stipendiary minister of the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore, and the Church of St Andrew, Sandford-on-Thames, in the Diocese of Oxford.

Selected works

* ''Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds''

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, 1998. * ''Popular morality in the early Roman Empire''

, 2007. * ''Seasons of the Spirit: A Community's Journey Through the Christian Year'' The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2010. * ''Every-Person Ministry'' SPCK, 2011. * ''Roman Faith and Christian Faith''

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 2015. * ''Being "In Christ" in the Letters of Paul: Saved Through Christ and In His Hands'' Mohr Siebeck Press, Tübingen, 2020. * ''The New Testament and The Theology of Trust: "This Rich Trust"''

, 2022.

References

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