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

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,...

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Main Author: Shantz, Colleen (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:[Rezension von: Shantz, Colleen, Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle's Life and Thought] (2010) (Jipp, Joshua W.)
Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostles’s Life and Thought. By Colleen Shantz (2011) (Deeley, Quinton)
[Rezension von: SHANTZ, COLLEEN, Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle's Life and Thought] (2011) (Craffert, Pieter F.)
Edition:1. publ.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Paul Apostle / Ecstasy / Enthusiasm / Religious experience
B Paul Apostle / Glossolaly / Vision / Charisma / Neurobiology
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Ecstasy
B Paul the Apostle, Saint
B Paul
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-252) and indexes
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of St. Michael's College, 2003
ISBN:0521866103