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Faith Matters

When Faith Meant Trust, with Teresa Morgan

Faith Matters

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We’re so excited to share a conversation that our friend and Executive Director, Zach Davis, had with Teresa Morgan, Professor at Yale Divinity School and a leading scholar of early Christian history. Teresa invites us to reconsider one of the most central words in Christianity: faith. She explains that for the first generations of Christians, “faith” didn’t mean signing on to a list of beliefs. It meant something more like trust—faithfulness, trustworthiness, the act of entrusting your life ...

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Patrick Mason. I want to invite you to an amazing event that Waymakers is holding on March 6th and downtown Salt Lake City called Interfaith Repair.

0:11.0

We've assembled an all-star list of religious leaders and practitioners who will teach workshops on a range of topics. You'll gain insights from Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, and a variety of Christian communities,

0:21.9

all of which you can implement regardless of whatever spiritual community you call home.

0:27.4

The event is all day on March 6, the First Presbyterian Church, in downtown Salt Lake.

0:31.9

For more information, including a full lineup of speakers, go to waymakers.us.

0:36.7

I can't wait to see you there.

0:40.0

Professor Teresa Morgan, thank you for joining us on the Faith Matters podcast. We're delighted

0:44.3

to have you today. Very good to see you, Zachary. Thank you for having me. Would you begin by

0:50.1

introducing yourself to our listeners? Yes. So, I'm Theresa Morgan. As you may be able to hear,

0:58.7

I'm British, but I now work in the US at Yale University at Yale Divinity School. And I came to Yale

1:07.0

by a slightly unusual path because I began my working life as a classicist as a historian of

1:12.7

the Greek and Roman worlds. And I taught Greek and Roman history at Oxford for 24 years. But during that time,

1:19.5

I got ordained in the Anglican Church, the Church of England, Episcopalian Church in the States.

1:25.8

And I did my first degree in theology, a degree in theology.

1:30.3

And I just got steadily more interested, really, in the New Testament, which of course is part

1:35.5

of the world of antiquity, which I was studying anyway, but also in Christian theology,

1:41.6

in patristics, in the development of the church and the development

1:45.9

of Christian theology through antiquity. And so I was increasingly writing about all those things.

1:51.6

And then in 2022, Yale asked me if I would like to come and teach those things at the Divinity School.

1:58.5

So that's what I do now. I teach New Testament and some church history and

2:04.0

some patristics, the development of doctrine, to the delightful students of Yale Divinity School.

2:10.4

So your first book about faith was Roman faith and Christian faith. Could you share what you argued in that book?

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