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BOOK
Title Among the gentiles : Greco-Roman religion and Christianity / Luke Timothy Johnson
Imprint New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2010

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Religion  270 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript x, 461 s. ; 23 cm
Series Anchor Bible Reference
Anchor Bible Reference
Note 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
Subject Christianity and other religions -- Roman
Christianity and other religions -- Greek
Paganism -- History
Church history -- Primitive and early church ca., 30-600
Rome -- Religion
Greece -- Religion
Kristendom och andra religioner
Hedendom -- historia
Fornkyrkan
Classmark 270.1
Cj.2
ISBN/ISSN 9780300168105
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