{"product_id":"religious-experience-in-earliest-christianity-9780800631291","title":"Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Luke Timothy Johnson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fortress Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - History - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897245913239,"sku":"9780800631291","price":2791.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780800631291.webp?v=1770361891","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/religious-experience-in-earliest-christianity-9780800631291","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}