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100 1  Johnson, Luke Timothy 
245 10 Among the gentiles :|bGreco-Roman religion and 
       Christianity /|cLuke Timothy Johnson 
264    New Haven, Conn. ;|aLondon :|bYale University Press,|c2010
300    x, 461 s. ;|c23 cm 
490 1  Anchor Bible Reference 
520 8  The question of Christianity's relation to the other 
       religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult 
       today than ever before. While Christianity's historical 
       failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is 
       notorious, Christianity's even more shoddy record with 
       respect to 'pagan' religions is less understood. 
       Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous 
       theological tradition that thinks of paganism in terms of 
       demonic possession, and of Christian missions as a rescue 
       operation that saves pagans from inherently evil 
       practices. In undertaking this fresh inquiry into early 
       Christianity and Graeco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy 
       Johnson begins with a broad definition of religion as a 
       way of life organized around convictions and experiences 
       concerning ultimate power. In the tradition of William 
       James' "Variety of Religious Experience", he identifies 
       four distinct ways of being religious: religion as 
       participation in benefits, as moral transformation, as 
       transcending the world, and as stabilizing the world 
650  0 Christianity and other religions|xRoman 
650  0 Christianity and other religions|xGreek 
650  0 Paganism|xHistory 
650  0 Church history|yPrimitive and early church ca., 30-600 
650  7 Kristendom och andra religioner|2sao 
650  7 Hedendom|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Fornkyrkan|2sao 
651  0 Rome|xReligion 
651  0 Greece|xReligion 
830  0 Anchor Bible Reference 
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