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 Biblical texts: How do you responsibly access someone else s experience, particularly experience as unusual and debated as religious ecstasy? And how do you account responsibly for the role of experience in that person s thought? Paul in Ecstasy pursues these questions through a variety of disciplines most...
While many readers of Paul s letters recognize how important his experience was to his life and thought, Biblical scholars have not generally addresse...
