The Religion of the Earliest Churches: Creating a Symbolic World by Gerd Theissen

The Religion of the Earliest Churches: Creating a Symbolic World

Gerd Theissen with John John Bowden (Translator)

392 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging medium-paced
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In these distinguished Oxford lectures, Theissen picks up where he left off in The Historical Jesus (1998). Employing the notion of religion as a "cultural sign language which promises a gain in life by corresponding to an ultimate reality," he pl...

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