
Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine
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Luke Timothy Johnson
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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Well organized. Good recording
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Where does Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the top "course" books - tough to compare it with fiction or nonfictionWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine?
The last chapters did a wonderful job of bringing the course to a peak experienceHave you listened to any of Professor Luke Timothy Johnson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
BestIf you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Tension Between The Institutional And The CharismaticGreat professor, history of faith articulated
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Fantastic although it made me Agnostic
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informative and informational
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Takes him a long time to get rolling in the reading. It is super clear but he’s a really endearing teacher and I enjoyed the time you spent learning together.
Slow start, nice overview
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Dr. Johnson describes some important apocryphal gospels and why they are not accepted by mainstream churches.
Provides insight into the Early Church
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Title is somewhat misleading
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fascinating
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Would you try another book from The Great Courses and Luke Timothy Johnson and/or Professor Luke Timothy Johnson?
Probably notWhat was most disappointing about The Great Courses and Luke Timothy Johnson ’s story?
I thought the lectures were about early Christianity. Instead there is a lot of background noise about the culture and beliefs of pagan Rome,and how they probably had a great influence on the early Christians.I got through 4 lectures and didn't know any more about early Christianity than before I started.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Professor Luke Timothy Johnson?
Reese Witherspoon.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
A bit more clarity in the title would benefit those interested in paganism.Any additional comments?
I'll just keep searching.Misleading title
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Would you try another book from The Great Courses and Luke Timothy Johnson and/or Professor Luke Timothy Johnson?
Very reluctantly.Would you be willing to try another book from The Great Courses and Luke Timothy Johnson ? Why or why not?
If free or heavily discounted. Luke Timothy Johnson comes across as a self-absorbed, pompous ass. He may know a lot about the subject, but often I can only hear "blah, blah, blah..."Would you listen to another book narrated by Professor Luke Timothy Johnson?
Preferably not.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Maybe, if LT Johnson did not narrate.Any additional comments?
Johnson poisons his own course with poor narration.Luke Timothy Johnson ruined a good topic
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