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 studiesbaptism, glossolalia, and mealsto show how a more wholistic, phenomenological approach can be made...
9780800631291
Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
248.209 / L954-J66
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 studiesbaptism, glossolalia, and mealsto show how a more wholistic, phenomenological approach can be made...
9780800631291
Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
248.209 / L954-J66