Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity
Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher: Fortress Press
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Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781451413267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.