Bibliograph

Early Christianity, the experience of the Divine, the Teaching Company

Type

Label

Early Christianity, the experience of the Divine, the Teaching Company

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Early Christianity

Oclc number

53008661

Responsibility statement

the Teaching Company

Runtime

720

Series statement

Great courses, Religion

Sub title

the experience of the Divine

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

disc 1. Christianity as a religion -- What is a religion -- The role of religious experience -- Sourcing Christianity -- The imperial context -- Greco-Roman polytheism -- disc. 2. Greco-Roman religious experience -- The symbolic world of Torah -- Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman world -- Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora -- Jesus in the Gospels -- The resurrection experience -- disc 3. Movement meets world-five key transitions -- Ritual imprinting and politics of perfection -- Glossolalia and the embarrassments of experience -- Meals are where the magic is -- Healing and salvation -- Access to power--visions and prayer -- disc 4. The holy community -- The community's worship -- The transforming word of scripture -- Teachers and creeds -- The power of the saints -- Christianities popular and real

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Experience of the Divine

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