Table of Contents

Preface

1. What's Missing from Christian Origins

2. Getting at Christian Experience

3. Ritual Imprinting and the Politics of Perfection

4. Glossolalia and the Embarrassments of Experiments

5. Meals Are Where the Magic Is

Epilogue

About the Author

Luke Timothy Johnson, the author of the Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections on the Letter of James, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His works include The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Trust of the Traditional Gospels and The Letter of James, in the Anchor Bible series.