{"product_id":"religious-experience-in-earliest-christianity-luke-timothy-johnson-9780800631291","title":"Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuke Johnson here issues a provocative call for a radically new direction in New Testament studies that can change the way we have viewed the entire phenomenon of early Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson is convinced that the dominant ways of studying early Christianity tend to miss its specifically religious character, because of a disjunction between formal religion and \"popular\" religion. He proposes in this book, by means of three case studies-baptism, glossolalia, and meals-to show how a more wholistic, phenomenological approach can be made. This makes possible the inclusion of the world of healings and religious power, of ecstay and spirit-in short, the religious experience of real persons in the study of early Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson concludes that there is still much to be learned about early Christianity as a religion, if we can find a way to get at the category of real experience. He maintains that early Christian texts reflect lives that are caught up by and defined by a power not in their control but controlled instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luke Timothy Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0800631293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800631291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Book of the Year - Winner","brand":"Luke Timothy Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981220348159,"sku":"9780800631291","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0ad6f62-64fb-46ea-8f21-a601542e22b9.jpg?v=1683254318","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/religious-experience-in-earliest-christianity-luke-timothy-johnson-9780800631291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}