Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity

by Luke Timothy Johnson

Book Overview

Luke 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.

Johnson 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800631293
• ISBN13: 9780800631291
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"