Furthermore, in the process of grappling with the believer’s identity in relation to both the world and Christ, 1 Peter seizes on the term Christianos. First Peter is the only book in the New Testament where Christians use the term to describe themselves; significantly, from here onward the term becomes Christianity’s “standard self-designation” (Horrell 2007, 381). In addition, as a corollary to 1 Peter’s development of the church as a holy nation, the epistle (like much of the New Testament)