Colleen Shantz

Paul in Ecstasy (eBook, PDF)

The Neurobiology of the Apostle's Life and Thought

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511537325
• Artikelnr.: 56695153

Autorenporträt

Colleen Shantz is Associate Professor of Christian Origins and Biblical Studies at St. Michael's College in the Toronto School of Theology and Dept. for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What ecstasy?: an assessment of the misregard
2. Paul's brain: the cognitive neurology of ecstasy
3. Paul's voice: parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse
4. Paul's practice: discerning ecstasies in practice
5. The whole Paul: a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity.