In a series of 24 recorded lectures, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson presents the history of the early Church and how the experience of religion caused it to become one of the fastest growing of all major religions.
Contents
Disc 1. Christianity as a religion -- What is a religion -- The role of religious experience -- Sourcing Christianity -- The imperial context -- Greco-Roman polytheism -- disc. 2. Greco-Roman religious experience -- The symbolic world of Torah -- Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman world -- Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora -- Jesus in the Gospels -- The resurrection experience.