Religious Experience In Earliest Christianity

Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413262

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Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity by Luke Timothy Johnson Pdf

In three fascinating probes of early Christianity - examining baptism, speaking in tongues, and meals in common - Johnson illustrates how a more wholistic approach opens up the world of healings and religious power, of ecstasy and spire - in short, the religious experience of real persons. Early Christian texts, he finds, reflect lives caught up in and defined by a power not in their control but engendered instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.

Author : Frances Flannery,Colleen Shantz,Rodney Alan Werline
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781589833685

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Experientia by Frances Flannery,Colleen Shantz,Rodney Alan Werline Pdf

An investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity.

Author : Colleen Shantz,Rodney Werline
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589836709

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Experientia, Volume 2 by Colleen Shantz,Rodney Werline Pdf

This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them. The contributors are István Czachesz, Frances Flannery, Robin Griffith-Jones, Angela Kim Harkins, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, John R. Levison, Carol A. Newsom, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Colleen Shantz, Leif E. Vaage, and Rodney A. Werline.

Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800631293

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Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity by Luke Timothy Johnson Pdf

In three fascinating probes of early Christianity - examining baptism, speaking in tongues, and meals in common - Johnson illustrates how a more wholistic approach opens up the world of healings and religious power, of ecstasy and spire - in short, the religious experience of real persons. Early Christian texts, he finds, reflect lives caught up in and defined by a power not in their control but engendered instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.

Author : Paul K. Moser,Chad Meister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108472173

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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience by Paul K. Moser,Chad Meister Pdf

Offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience.

Author : Clint Tibbs
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620321676

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Religious Experience of the Pneuma by Clint Tibbs Pdf

This book explores the Christian religious experience of the pneuma given in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. The experience Paul mentions in these texts, as well as the mention of "spirits" in three different places, suggest that Paul was actually writing about communicating with the spirit world.

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300125818

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A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman Pdf

"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David John McCollough
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161618338

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Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities by David John McCollough Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1565858298

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Early Christianity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Turid Karlsen Seim,Jorunn Økland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110202991

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Metamorphoses by Turid Karlsen Seim,Jorunn Økland Pdf

How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material

Author : Mark Wreford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696663

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Religious Experience and the Creation of Scripture by Mark Wreford Pdf

This volume examines the reasons that prompted the New Testament writers to create the texts which would become the formation of the Christian religion, exploring the possibility that certain religious experiences were understood as revelatory, and consequently inspired the writing of texts which were seen as special from their inception. Mark Wreford uses Luke-Acts and Galatians as test-cases within the New Testament, reflecting both on the stated importance of religious experiences – whether the author's own or others' – to the development of these texts, and the status the texts claim for themselves. Wreford suggests that Luke-Acts offers a helpful example of the relationship between religious experience and the creation of Scripture, as an extensive narrative which reflects on early Christian claims to Spirit-inspired witness and which begins with an explicit authorial statement of purpose. Similarly, in Galatians, Paul's autobiographical account of God's revelation of Christ to him is the foundation of a letter that is intended to play an authoritative role in shaping its addressees' own faith and practice. Wreford argues that religious experiences are presented as the driving force behind the creation of the texts, examining how such religious experience links with notions of scripture and canonicity. He then asserts that both Luke and Paul understood themselves to be creating new scriptural writings on the basis of their relationship to new religious experiences, citing the experience and speech at Pentecost, the inclusion of gentiles in the experience, and Paul's own conversion experience as key elements behind the self-understanding of these New Testament authors.

Author : Shirley Jackson Case
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596054462

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Experience with the Supernatural in Early Christian Times by Shirley Jackson Case Pdf

The Bible is rich in miracles. Supernaturalism runs like a scarlet thread through the whole book from Genesis to Revelation. Many people tend to pass hastily over the miracle stories, however, and find greater satisfaction in the Bible's less spectacular portrayals of moral ideas and spiritual struggles. So how can we account for the prominence of the miraculous in Hebrew religion and more particularly in early Christianity? Why did the advocates of the new religion concern themselves so extensively with the imagery of supernaturalism? These are the questions Shirley Jackson Case seeks to answer in this provocative work. SHIRLEY JACKSON CASE (1872-1947) was a liberal theologian at the University of Chicago. Case was regarded as perhaps the finest scholar of the socio-historical method, which viewed the Bible as telling and reflecting the history of a movement that had its own needs and goals. She is also the author of The Historicity of Jesus, which is one of the earliest book-length scholarly refutations of the Jesus Myth.

Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493434893

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Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God by Harold A. Netland Pdf

For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802831672

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Lord Jesus Christ by Larry W. Hurtado Pdf

This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century. Lord Jesus Christ is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm Bousset s Kyrios Christos (1913) as the standard work on the subject. Larry Hurtado, widely respected for his previous contributions to the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, offers the best view to date of how the first Christians saw and reverenced Jesus as divine. In assembling this compelling picture, Hurtado draws on a wide body of ancient sources, from Scripture and the writings of such figures as Ignatius of Antioch and Justin to apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Truth. Hurtado considers such themes as early beliefs about Jesus divine status and significance, but he also explores telling devotional practices of the time, including prayer and worship, the use of Jesus name in exorcism, baptism and healing, ritual invocation of Jesus as Lord, martyrdom, and lesser-known phenomena such as prayer postures and the curious scribal practice known today as the nomina sacra. The revealing portrait that emerges from Hurtado s comprehensive study yields definitive answers to questions like these: How important was this formative period to later Christian tradition? When did the divinization of Jesus first occur? Was early Christianity influenced by neighboring religions? How did the idea of Jesus divinity change old views of God? And why did the powerful dynamics of early beliefs and practices encourage people to make the costly move of becoming a Christian? Boasting an unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage — the book speaks authoritatively on everything from early Christian history to themes in biblical studies to New Testament Christology — Hurtado s Lord Jesus Christ is at once significant enough that a wide range of scholars will want to read it and accessible enough that general readers interested at all in Christian origins will also profit greatly from it.

Author : Mark Wreford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696649

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Religious Experience and the Creation of Scripture by Mark Wreford Pdf

Mark Wreford examines the reasons that prompted the New Testament writers to create the texts which would become the formation of the Christian religion, exploring the possibility that certain religious experiences were understood as revelatory, and consequently inspired the writing of texts which were seen as special from their inception. Wreford uses Luke-Acts and Galatians as test-cases within the New Testament, reflecting both on the stated importance of religious experiences – whether the author's own or others' – to the development of these texts, and the status the texts claim for themselves. Wreford suggests that Luke-Acts offers a helpful example of the relationship between religious experience and the creation of Scripture, as an extensive narrative which reflects on early Christian claims to Spirit-inspired witness and which begins with an explicit authorial statement of purpose. Similarly, in Galatians, Paul's autobiographical account of God's revelation of Christ to him is the foundation of a letter that is intended to play an authoritative role in shaping its addressees' own faith and practice. Wreford argues that religious experiences are presented as the driving force behind the creation of the texts, examining how such religious experience links with notions of scripture and canonicity. He then asserts that both Luke and Paul understood themselves to be creating new scriptural writings on the basis of their relationship to new religious experiences, citing the experience and speech at Pentecost, the inclusion of gentiles in the experience, and Paul's own conversion experience as key elements behind the self-understanding of these New Testament authors.