Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles
Subtitle: How the Early Believers Experienced God
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780814627976
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the New Testament; Christian religious experience; Religion - Missions; Missions & Missionary Work; Christianity - History - Catholic; Visions in the Bible; Religion; Religion - Catholicism; Religion - Classic Works; Mysticism; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Spirituality - General; Christian Life - General; Acts; Bible; Commentaries; Healing in the Bible; N.T
First sentence: These are just five of the more than twenty references in Acts of the Apostles to individuals encountering God, the risen Jesus, or angels in a level of awareness different from ordinary waking consciousness.
Description: "This book examines religious ecstatic trance experiences and healing events reported in the Acts of the Apostles. It applies insights from the social sciences, namely: cultural anthropology, cognitive neuro-science, and medical anthropology to the interpretation of these events. It also presents Luke's continuous story-line in Acts from a literary and theological perspective. Whether or not one considers these events to be literally factual, fact-with-interpretation, or Lucan composition, the message makes plausible cultural sense to a first-century Mediterranean listener or reader."--BOOK JACKET.