Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity <subTitle>A missing dimension in New Testament studies</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Johnson, Luke Timothy</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>199tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Luke Timothy Johnson</note> <subject> <topic>Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">248.209</classification> <classification authority="ddc">L954-J66</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780800631291</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13130/y.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13130/y.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071221.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>