Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity A missing dimension in New Testament studies

Johnson, Luke Timothy

Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity A missing dimension in New Testament studies Luke Timothy Johnson - U.S.A. Fortress Press 1998 - 199tr. Paperback, illustrations 23cm

Luke Johnson here issues a provocative call for a radically new direction in New Testament studies that can change the way we have viewed the entire phenomenon of early Christianity.Johnson is convinced that the dominant ways of studying early Christianity tend to miss its specifically religious character, because of a disjunction between formal religion and ""popular"" religion. He proposes in this book, by means of three case studies—baptism, glossolalia, and meals—to show how a more wholistic, phenomenological approach can be made...

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Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600

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