Experience with the Supernatural in Early Christian TimesCosimo, Inc., 1 de des. 2005 - 352 pàgines The Bible is rich in miracles. Supernaturalism runs like a scarlet thread through the whole book from Genesis to Revelation. Many people tend to pass hastily over the miracle stories, however, and find greater satisfaction in the Bible's less spectacular portrayals of moral ideas and spiritual struggles. So how can we account for the prominence of the miraculous in Hebrew religion and more particularly in early Christianity? Why did the advocates of the new religion concern themselves so extensively with the imagery of supernaturalism? These are the questions Shirley Jackson Case seeks to answer in this provocative work. SHIRLEY JACKSON CASE (1872-1947) was a liberal theologian at the University of Chicago. Case was regarded as perhaps the finest scholar of the socio-historical method, which viewed the Bible as telling and reflecting the history of a movement that had its own needs and goals. She is also the author of The Historicity of Jesus, which is one of the earliest book-length scholarly refutations of the Jesus Myth. |
Continguts
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THE VISIBILITY OF SPIRITS | 34 |
MEDIA OF REVELATION | 67 |
HEROIC REDEEMERS | 106 |
SUPPLIANT HUMANITY | 146 |
PROTECTION FOR SOCIETY | 186 |
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Experience with the Supernatural in Early Christian Times Shirley Jackson Case Visualització de fragments - 1929 |
Experience with the Supernatural in Early Christian Times Shirley Jackson Case Visualització de fragments - 1929 |
Experience with the Supernatural in Early Christian Times Shirley Jackson Case Previsualització no disponible - 2013 |
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Pàgina 21 - This opinion begins to gain ground, and both the learned and the unlearned vulgar are falling into it. Hence we have the admonitions of thunder, the warnings of oracles, the predictions of soothsayers, and things too trifling to be mentioned, as sneezing and stumbling with the feet reckoned among omens. The late emperor Augustus relates, that he put the left shoe on the wrong foot, the day when he was near being assaulted by his soldiers.