Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine

by Luke Timothy Johnson

CD audiobook, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

270.1

Collection

Publication

The Great Courses (2002), 12 hours, 24 lectures

Description

In a series of 24 recorded lectures, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson presents the history of the early Church and how the experience of religion caused it to become one of the fastest growing of all major religions.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

7.5 inches

ISBN

1565853644 / 9781565853645

Local notes

1 Christianity as a Religion / 2 What Is a Religion? / 3 The Role of Religious Experience / 4 Sourcing Christianity / 5 The Imperial Context / 6 Greco-Roman Polytheism / 7 Greco-Roman Religious Experience / 8 The Symbolic World of Torah / 9 Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman World / 10 Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora / 11 Jesus and the Gospels / 12 The Resurrection Experience / 13 Movement Meets World—Five Key Transitions / 14 Ritual Imprinting and Politics of Perfection / 15 Glossolalia and the Embarrassments of Experience / 16 Meals Are Where the Magic Is / 17 Healing and Salvation / 18 Access to Power—Visions and Prayer / 19 The Holy Community / 20 The Community’s Worship / 21 The Transforming Word of Scripture / 22 Teachers and Creeds / 23 The Power of the Saints / 24 Christianities Popular and Real

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