Paul in ecstasy : the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought /

While many readers of Paul's letters recognize how important his experience was to his life and thought, Biblical scholars have not generally addressed this topic head-on. Colleen Shantz argues that they have been held back both by a bias against religious ecstasy and by the limits of the Bibli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shantz, Colleen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Paul, > the Apostle, Saint.
Paul, > the Apostle, Saint
Paulus (Apostel)
Ecstasy.
Extase.
RELIGION > Biblical Biography > New Testament.
Ecstasy
Ekstase
Enthusiasmus
Religiöse Erfahrung
Glossolalie
Charisma
Neurobiologie
Vision
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • What ecstasy? : an assessment of the misregard
  • At first sight : the cultural bias against religious ecstasy
  • The view from here : biases in New Testament studies
  • Cognicentrism in New Testament studies
  • Ecstatics are Catholic, aren't they?
  • Pauline oversight
  • Paul, opponent of ecstatic abuses
  • Well, maybe once, but only by accident : conversion as the catchall for Paul's ecstasy
  • Through the reading glasses
  • Paul's brain : the cognitive neurology of ecstasy
  • Ecstatic religious experience and human neurology
  • Cross-cultural ecstatic experience
  • A brief history of the human brain
  • The neurological and cerebral basis for ecstatic experience
  • The model of neurological tuning
  • Paul's ecstasy : textual and somatic
  • Critical issues in the interpretation of 2 Cor. 12:1-4
  • A neurological rereading of 2 Cor. 12:1-4
  • Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse
  • Other features of ecstasy
  • Beyond paradise
  • Visions and revelations
  • Corinthians 3-5
  • Romans 8
  • Ecstasy and suffering
  • Paul's body of knowledge
  • Transformation and union
  • Embodying death
  • Paul's practice : discerning ecstasies in practice
  • Spirit possession
  • Neurological and social anthropological features
  • Spirit possession in Corinth
  • Soul journey
  • Social anthropological definitions
  • Paul's use of ASC
  • Pneumatika
  • Prophecy in taxonomy of social anthropology
  • Paul's comments
  • Implications : Paul's public position on ASC
  • The whole Paul : a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity.

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