RT Article
T1 Revelatory Experiences and Religious Innovation in Earliest Christianity1
JF The expository times
VO 125
IS 10
SP 469
OP 482
A1 Hurtado, Larry W. 1943-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1560690143
AB Over a number of years I have contended that powerful religious experiences comprised a major factor in the religious innovations represented in earliest Christianity. These are experiences that strike the recipient with the force of new revelation, typically introducing new beliefs or a significant reconfiguring of previous beliefs. In this essay, I return to the topic, surveying more recent interest in religious experience and also proposing some of the specifics of the experiences that helped to generate innovations in earliest Christian circles, with special attention to the eruption of the remarkable Jesus-devotion that distinguished them.
K1 BELIEF & doubt
K1 CHARISMATIC EXEGESIS
K1 Christianity
K1 Christophany
K1 Devotion
K1 dyadic devotional pattern
K1 Experience (Religion)
K1 Jesus-devotion
K1 Mysticism
K1 Religious Experience
K1 Religious Life
K1 RELIGIOUS psychology
K1 Revelation
K1 Vision
DO 10.1177/0014524613497150