UID:
almahu_9947415293202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511581625 (ebook)
Inhalt:
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 Biblical texts: how do you responsibly access someone else's experience, particularly experience as unusual and debated as religious ecstasy? And how do you account responsibly for the role of experience in that person's thought? Paul in Ecstasy pursues these questions through a variety of disciplines - most notably neuroscience. This study provides cogent explanations for bewildering passages in Paul's letters, outlines a much greater influence of such experience in Paul's life and letters, and points to its importance in Christian origins.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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What ecstasy? : an assessment of the misregard.
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At first sight : the cultural bias against religious ecstasy ;
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The view from here : biases in New Testament studies
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(Cognicentrism in New Testament studies ;
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Ecstatics are Catholic, aren't they?) ;
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Pauline oversight
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(Paul, opponent of ecstatic abuses ;
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Well, maybe once, but only by accident : conversion as the catchall for Paul's ecstasy ;
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Through the reading glasses) ;
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Conclusion --
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Paul's brain : the cognitive neurology of ecstasy.
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Ecstatic religious experience and human neurology
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(Cross-cultural ecstatic experience ;
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A brief history of the human brain) ;
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The neurological and cerebral basis for ecstatic experience
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(The model of neurological tuning) ;
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Paul's ecstasy : textual and somatic
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(Critical issues in the interpretation of 2 Cor 12:1-4 ;
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A neurological rereading of 2 Cor 12:1-4) ;
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Conclusion --
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Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse.
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Other features of ecstasy ;
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Beyond paradise
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(Visions and revelations ;
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2 Corinthians 3-5 ;
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Romans 8 ;
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Ecstasy and suffering) ;
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Paul's body of knowledge
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(Transformation and union ;
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Embodying death) ;
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Conclusion --
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Paul's practice : discerning ecstasies in practice.
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Spirit possession
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(Neurological and social anthropological features ;
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Spirit possession in Corinth) ;
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Soul journey
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(Social anthropological definitions ;
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Paul's use of ASC) ;
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Pneumatika
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(Prophecy in taxonomy of social anthropology ;
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Paul's comments) ;
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Implications : Paul's public position on ASC --
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The whole Paul : a short course in (nondeterministic) complexity.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521866101
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581625
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