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.

Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine

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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson

World

Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music

Almost from the moment it was first set to paper, the music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - technically superb, rich in quality, and widely imitated - has exemplified the Classical style, creating not only the Classical-era symphony but setting the standard, through his own 68 string quartets, against which that form has ever after been judged. And yet Haydn, despite the influence left by more than 1,000 works, seems to no longer get his due, often thought of as an aged figure surpassed and overshadowed by Beethoven and Mozart, who actually credited Haydn, the only contemporary he admired, and with whom he formed a lasting and artistically fruitful friendship, with teaching him how to write string quartets. Even Beethoven, whose relationship with his compositional teacher was troubled and stormy, would never have been able to write his triumphant Ninth Symphony without the influence of Haydn's crowning achievement, the towering 1798 oratorio, Creation. Now, in a series of eight vivid lectures, you can learn to understand and appreciate the music of one of the most original and influential composers of all time as you explore his origins, influence, and greatest works.

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2002. 12 Audio CD's, + 2 Course Guidebooks in 2 clamshell cases. Parts 1 & 2 / 24 Lectures/30 minutes per lecture. Taught by Professor Amy-Jill Levine.

Great Figures of the Old Testament : Parts 1 & 2, Includes 12 Audio CD's and 2 Course Guidebooks (The Great Courses : Religion)

20 LeacturesLecture 1: How Economists ThinkLecture 2: The Fundamentals of Supply &amp; DemandLecture 3: Reconciling Policy with Supply &amp; DemandLecture 4: The Labor Market &amp; WagesLecture 5: Interest Rates and the Demand Side of the Capital MarketLecture 6: Financial Investment from the Supply SideLecture 7: The Environment &amp; Negative ExternalitiesLecture 8: Technology, Positive Externalities, and Public GoodsLecture 9: Poverty &amp; InequalityLecture 10: Regulation to Ensure Free MarketLecture 11: The Macroeconomic Perspective on Long-Term GrowthLecture 12: Fighting UnemploymentLecture 13: Why Low Inflation MattersLecture 14: A Sustainable Trade BalanceLecture 15: The Federal Budget and Fiscal PolicyLecture 16: The Federal Reserve and Monetary PolicyLecture 17: The Unemployment-Inflation TradeoffLecture 18: Trade PolicyLecture 19: Exchange Rate PolicyLecture 20: A Global Economic Perspective

The Great Courses - Economics (The Great Courses: Business & Economics - Complete Set)

Includes lecture transcript and course guidebook and 2 DVDs in a plastic case.

Great World Religions: Islam (Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook, Part 1 of 1)

John L. Esposito

Psychology of Human Behavior

Today's psychologist is apt to be very different from the image most people conjure up when asked to picture one - an image that almost always suggests Sigmund Freud or someone like him, complete with leather couch. But as indebted as they may be to Freud's landmark explorations of our psychological landscape, modern psychologists are involved in far more than helping people cope with their inner demons. Instead, they are working in areas that now encompass every part of the process by which we develop and function as people: How we perceive, remember, and learn how we select our friends and partners and retain their affection and love The things that motivate us Now you can gain a basic introduction to psychology - beginning with its historical context and looking ahead to some of the directions it is likely to take in the future - in this fascinating series of 36 lectures from an acclaimed teacher and author. It explores all of the many new areas that now fit comfortably beneath psychology's umbrella and the sophisticated new research methods that have emerged. These lectures are both an excellent summary of a transformed profession and an ideal starting point for those eager to expand their understanding of the human mind.

Publication Date: 2006A music history and appreciation course, all in one. In these 58 lectures, Professor Greenberg discusses music from the ancient world to the modern day. According to The Teaching Company, "This course can permanently enrich your life." Lecture Titles (abbreviated): Introduction Sources-The Ancient World and the Early Church The Middle Ages Introduction to the Renaissance The Renaissance Mass The Madrigal Introduction to the Baroque Style Features of Baroque Music and a Brief Tutorial on Pitch, Motive, Melody, and Texture The Rise of German Nationalism in Music Fugue Baroque Opera, Part 1 Part 2 Baroque Sacred Music, Part 1-The Oratorio Part 2-The Lutheran Church Cantata Baroque Instrumental Forms, Part 1-Passacaglia Part 2-Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence Classical-Era Form-Theme and Variations Minuet and Trio I-Baroque Antecedents Minuet and Trio II Rondo Sonata-Allegro Form I, Part 1 Part 2 Classical-Era Form-Sonata-Allegro Form II Classical-Era Orchestral Genres-The Symphony The Solo Concerto Classical-Era Opera-The Development of Opera Buffa Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble The French Revolution Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, Part 1 Part 2 Introduction to Romanticism Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music-Miniatures-Lieder and Chopin Program Symphony-Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Part 1 Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera-Bel Canto Opera Giuseppe Verdi Nineteenth-Century German Opera-Nationalism and Experimentation Richard Wagner The Concert Overture, Part 1 Part 2 Romantic Nationalism-Post-1848 Musical Nationalism Russian Nationalism The Early Twentieth Century and the Modernist Movement-An Introduction The Search for a New Musical Language-Debussy Stravinsky Schönberg

The Teaching Company: HOW TO LISTEN TO AND UNDERSTAND GREAT MUSIC, 3rd Edition, Complete Set (The Great Courses: Fine Arts and Music, Course # 700)

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Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers - Course Guidebook & DVDs (The Great Courses: Science & Mathematics)

Science & Math

Professor Edward B. Burger

History & Philosophy

369 Days Care

The History of the English Language Parts 1-3, 2nd Edition [DVD] [Jan 01, 2006] Seth Lerer and The Teaching Company ... 1598034030

The History of the English Language Parts 1-3, 2nd Edition

Seth Lerer

Understanding Complexity: Course Guidebook & DVDs (The Great Courses: Business & Economics)

Professor Scott E. Page

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