Early Christianity : The Experience of the Divine
Early Christianity : The Experience of the Divine. Two plastic cases containing 4 DVDs, 24 total lectures at 30 minutes per lecture, by Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. LECTURES IN PART 1 OF 2: Christianity as a Religion; What Is A 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. LECTURES IN PART 2 OF 2: 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; The Holy Community; The Community's Worship; The Transforming Word of Scripture; Teachers and Creeds; The Power of the Saints; Christianities Popular and Real. 2002.