Paul in ecstasy the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought
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 Bibli...
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2009
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- 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) Conclusion 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) Conclusion Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse Other features of ecstasy Beyond paradise (Visions and revelations 2 Corinthians 3-5 Romans 8 Ecstasy and suffering) Paul's body of knowledge (Transformation and union Embodying death) Conclusion 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 (nondeterministic) complexity