TY - BOOK AU - Johnson, Luke Timothy AU - TI - Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity SN - 9780800631291 U1 - 248.209 CY - U.S.A. KW - Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Christian communities -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 N2 - 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 UR - https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13130/y.jpg ER -