Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension in New Testament Studies

Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension in New Testament Studies
ISBN-10
1451413262
ISBN-13
9781451413267
Category
Religion
Pages
212
Language
English
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
Luke Timothy Johnson

Description

In three fascinating probes of early Christianity - examining baptism, speaking in tongues, and meals in common - Johnson illustrates how a more wholistic approach opens up the world of healings and religious power, of ecstasy and spire - in short, the religious experience of real persons. Early Christian texts, he finds, reflect lives caught up in and defined by a power not in their control but engendered instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.

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