Paul in ecstasy
Subtitle: the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought
By: Colleen Shantz.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780521866101
Subjects: Paul, -- the Apostle, Saint; Ecstasy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What ecstasy? : an assessment of the misregard; title: At first sight : the cultural bias against religious ecstasy; title: The view from here : biases in New Testament studies; title: Cognicentrism in New Testament studies; title: Ecstatics are Catholic, aren't they?; title: Pauline oversight; title: Paul, opponent of ecstatic abuses; title: Well, maybe once, but only by accident : conversion as the catchall for Paul's ecstasy; title: Through the reading glasses; title: Paul's brain : the cognitive neurology of ecstasy; title: Ecstatic religious experience and human neurology; title: Cross-cultural ecstatic experience; title: A brief history of the human brain; title: The neurological and cerebral basis for ecstatic experience; title: The model of neurological tuning; title: Paul's ecstasy : textual and somatic; title: Critical issues in the interpretation of 2 Cor. 12:1-4; title: A neurological rereading of 2 Cor. 12:1-4; title: Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse; title: Other features of ecstasy; title: Beyond paradise; title: Visions and revelations; title: Corinthians 3-5; title: Romans 8; title: Ecstasy and suffering; title: Paul's body of knowledge; title: Transformation and union; title: Embodying death; title: Paul's practice : discerning ecstasies in practice; title: Spirit possession; title: Neurological and social anthropological features; title: Spirit possession in Corinth; title: Soul journey; title: Social anthropological definitions; title: Paul's use of ASC; title: Pneumatika; title: Prophecy in taxonomy of social anthropology; title: Paul's comments; title: Implications : Paul's public position on ASC; title: The whole Paul : a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity.