Status
Available
Call number
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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