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Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine
- Narrated by: Luke Timothy Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
After 2,000 years, Christianity is the world's largest religion and continues to prosper and grow. What accounts for its continued popularity?
In these twenty-four lectures, Professor Johnson maintains that the most familiar aspects of Christianity-its myths, institutions, ideas and morality-are only its outer "husk." He takes you on a journey to find the "kernel" of Christianity's appeal: religious experience. You'll travel back to Christianity's origins during its first 300 years to identify the elements that first made it appealing and which still hold the secret to its ability to attract new followers.
Professor Johnson employs scholarly techniques that have only recently been applied to religion. In introducing early Christian religious experience, Professor Johnson looks at questions that are new and intellectually exciting in the study of religion. Was Christ the founder of Christianity? Was Christianity's early growth due to his life and works or to his followers' powerful experience of his death and resurrection, their sense of having been transformed by the Holy Spirit?
By combining such disciplines as history, the social sciences, and comparative literary analysis, you'll look at religious experience and behavior from a fresh perspective. You'll consider a variety of theories developed by the philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Immanuel Kant, Emil Durkheim, the founder of sociology, and Sigmund Freud. And to better understand religious experience in Christianity, you'll also study it in the two religions with which early Christianity co-existed: Greco-Roman paganism and Judaism.
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- eleutheria
- 04-02-23
Really interesting and helpful
Now I'm finished, I want to listen to this all over again to glean more from it, There's so much here, and it has helped me with my own cognitive dissonance about the Christian church. Thank you very much to Luke Timothy Johnson
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- lynda
- 20-05-17
interesting angle
I enjoyed looking at Early Christianity and it's influences from a sociological stand point rather than purely historical.
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- User EAC
- 20-02-20
An unpleasant surprise!
I did not think that I would live to the day when a Benedictine monk will passionately invite his listeners to close ranks with polytheists. The text is almost unbearable for Christian listeners, the arguments are primitive, in particular those related to archeology, history, and religion. His treatment of religion is a compilation of secular and shallow natural religion dogmas. A very disappointing and dubious example of contemporary theology, notwithstanding the author's high posts in academia. All in all, avoid this book, if you seek genuine interpretation of Christian faith and its history and if you are here to draw an inspiration from the word of Christ.
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- Tout en chantant
- 20-06-21
Too androcentric a take for a xxi century historian
Just one example: Mr Johnson repeats this statement several times: ‘ ALL jews were circumcised’
This begs the question : were all Jews male?!
For Mr Johnson Jewish women are so not part of the story that he doesn’t even notice The outrageousness of his claim.
And this mentality percolates all the rest of his telling.
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