Early Christianity : The Experience of the Divine
1565857372
9781565857377
Description:
This 4 DVD set contains 24 lectures, each 30 minutes, given by Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, of Emory University's Chandler School of Divinity. Some of the lectures cover: Christianity as a Religion, What is Religion, The Role of Religious Experience, Sourcing Christianity, The Imperial Context, Greco-Roman Polytheism, Greco-Roman Religious Experience, The Symbolic World of Torah, Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman World, Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora, Jesus and the Gospels, The Resurrection Experience, Ritual Imprinting and Politics of Perfection, Glossolalia and the Embarrassments of Experience, Healing and Salvation, The Holy Community, The Community's Worship, The Transforming Word of Scripture, Teachers and Creeds, The Power of the Saints, Christianities Popular and Real, and more.