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Early Christianity the experience of the Divine
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Title
Early Christianity [sound recording] : the experience of the Divine / Luke Timothy Johnson.
Published
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2002.
Physical Description
12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 56, ii, 52 p. ; 22 cm.)
Notes
Compact discs.
In two containers.
Summary
Professor Luke Timothy Johnson in a series of 24 recorded lectures presents the history of the early Church and how the experience of religion caused it to become one of the fastest growing of all major religions.
Variant and related titles
Experience of the Divine
Early Christianity, the experience of the Divine
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 22, 2004
Series
The great courses
Performers
Professor Luke Timothy Johnson.
Contents
Part 1: Christianity as a religion
What is a religion?
The role of religious experience
Sourcing Christianity
The imperial context
Greco-Roman polytheism
Greco-Roman religious experience
The symbolic world of Torah
Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman world
Judaism in the Hellenistic diaspora
Jesus and the Gospels
The resurrection experience
Part 2. Movement meets world, five key transitions
Ritual imprinting and politics of perfection
Glossolalia and the embarrassments of experience
Meals are where the magic is
Healing and salvation
Access to power, visions and prayer
The holy community
The community's worship
The transforming word of scripture
Teachers and creeds
The power of the saints
Christianities popular and real.
Issue number
645-646 Teaching Company
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