03182nam a2200397Ia 4500 ocn435414702 OCoLC 20200709055218.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 090901s2009 enka sb 001 0deng d N$T N$T 9780511540981 (electronic bk.) 0511540981 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)435414702 279922 (N$T) BS2506.3 .S53 2009eb 225.9/2 22 N$TA Shantz, Colleen. Paul in ecstasy [electronic resource] : the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought / Colleen Shantz. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of St. Michael's College, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-252) and indexes. 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. Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Paul, the Apostle, Saint. Ecstasy. Electronic books. local NetLibrary, Inc. Original 9780521866101 0521866103 (DLC) 2008045751 (OCoLC)261177606 Bibliographic record display http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=279922 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information cpp2430 02 N$T 49519 49519