Identity and Experience in the New Testament: A Historical Psychology

How do the New Testament documents present issues of passion will identity and perception? How did the earliest followers of Jesus understand their experiences behaviors and suffering? These questions and more are addressed in this stimulating work by one of the most productive Continental New Testament scholars. Rather than approaching the New Testament with a Freudian Jungian or other modern psychological theory Berger illuminates historically how peoples of the first century described their human experiences in relation to their encounters with God Christ demons and the power of their own desires and will.