DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Early Christianity : the experience of the Divine / the Teaching Company.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2002]

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 56, ii, 52 pages ; 22 cm).

digital video

videodisc

DVD

video file DVD

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.

Great courses, Religion

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Experience (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Johnson, Luke Timothy.

Teaching Company.

Experience of the Divine

Lecturer: Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory Univ.

DVD, NTSC, region 1.

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 -- disc 3. Movement meets world-five key transitions -- Ritual imprinting and politics of perfection -- Glossolalia and the embarrassments of experience -- Meals are where the magic is -- Healing and salvation -- Access to power--visions and prayer -- disc 4. The holy community -- The community's worship -- The transforming word of scripture -- Teachers and creeds -- The power of the saints -- Christianities popular and real.

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GREAT DVD 270.1 Early Ch