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  • Two Aspects of Early Christian Faith

  • Teresa Morgan
  • Journal:
    Studies in Church History / Volume 57 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 May 2021, pp. 6-31
    Print publication:
    June 2021

  • ‘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, affirming that certain doctrines are true has become central to becoming Christian and to remaining within the church. During the same period, we find a steady growth in poetic and imagistic descriptions of interior faith. This article explores how and why these developments occurred, arguing that they are mutually implicated and that this period sees the beginning of their long co-existence.

  • Diagnostic stewardship of C. difficile testing: a quasi-experimental antimicrobial stewardship study

  • Alyssa B. Christensen, Viktorija O. Barr, David W. Martin, Morgan M. Anderson, Amanda K. Gibson, Brian M. Hoff, Sarah H. Sutton, Valerie Widmaier, Asra A. Salim, Christina Silkaitis, Chao Qi, Teresa R. Zembower, Michael J. Postelnick, Nathaniel J. Rhodes
  • Journal:
    Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 40 / Issue 3 / March 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 February 2019, pp. 269-275
    Print publication:
    March 2019
  • Objective:

    We evaluated whether a diagnostic stewardship initiative consisting of ASP preauthorization paired with education could reduce false-positive hospital-onset (HO) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).

    Design:

    Single center, quasi-experimental study.

    Setting:

    Tertiary academic medical center in Chicago, Illinois.

    Patients:

    Adult inpatients were included in the intervention if they were admitted between October 1, 2016, and April 30, 2018, and were eligible for C. difficile preauthorization review. Patients admitted to the stem cell transplant (SCT) unit were not included in the intervention and were therefore considered a contemporaneous noninterventional control group.

    Intervention:

    The intervention consisted of requiring prescriber attestation that diarrhea has met CDI clinical criteria, ASP preauthorization, and verbal clinician feedback. Data were compared 33 months before and 19 months after implementation. Facility-wide HO-CDI incidence rates (IR) per 10,000 patient days (PD) and standardized infection ratios (SIR) were extracted from hospital infection prevention reports.

    Results:

    During the entire 52 month period, the mean facility-wide HO-CDI-IR was 7.8 per 10,000 PD and the SIR was 0.9 overall. The mean ± SD HO-CDI-IR (8.5 ± 2.0 vs 6.5 ± 2.3; P < .001) and SIR (0.97 ± 0.23 vs 0.78 ± 0.26; P = .015) decreased from baseline during the intervention. Segmented regression models identified significant decreases in HO-CDI-IR (Pstep = .06; Ptrend = .008) and SIR (Pstep = .1; Ptrend = .017) trends concurrent with decreases in oral vancomycin (Pstep < .001; Ptrend < .001). HO-CDI-IR within a noninterventional control unit did not change (Pstep = .125; Ptrend = .115).

    Conclusions:

    A multidisciplinary, multifaceted intervention leveraging clinician education and feedback reduced the HO-CDI-IR and the SIR in select populations. Institutions may consider interventions like ours to reduce false-positive C. difficile NAAT tests.

  • Response to my commentators

  • TERESA J. MORGAN
  • Journal:
    Religious Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 4 / December 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 October 2018, pp. 592-604
    Print publication:
    December 2018

  • 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.

  • Roman Faith and Christian Faith

  • Teresa Morgan
  • Journal:
    New Testament Studies / Volume 64 / Issue 2 / April 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 March 2018, pp. 255-261
    Print publication:
    April 2018

  • 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.

Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
  • Teresa Morgan
  • Published online:
    27 October 2009
    Print publication:
    09 August 2007
  • 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 a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.

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