Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB and virtually FLAWLESS condition 12 Audio Cassette Two Box Set and Two Course Guidebook Set which is an 24 lecture series on "Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine, Part I & Part II" taught by PROFESSOR LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON of Emory University, and issued in the wonderful "The Great Courses" series as Course No. 645 and No. 646--the set is NOT a cutout!  The Box Set was issued by The Teaching Company in 2002.

This twelve cassette, two plastic case set is in SUPERB and virtually FLAWLESS condition and all 12 cassettes are in PERFECT shape and should play without flaw; the two plastic cases are in SUPERB condition with just slight shelfwear on the plastic, and the two original course books are also included (they're inserted in the plastic sleeve of the cover) and have no significant flaws--it's NOT a cutout!

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.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this Cassette set!

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