Johnson, Luke Timothy <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/> 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... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800631291 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc<br/>Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>248.209  / L954-J66