Colleen Shantz addresses the role of religious experience in Paul's life and letters, demonstrating its importance in Christian origins.

Colleen Shantz is Associate Professor of Christian Origins and Biblical Studies at St. Michael's College in the Toronto School of Theology and Dept. for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Introduction; 1. What ecstasy?: an assessment of the misregard; 2. Paul's brain: the cognitive neurology of ecstasy; 3. Paul's voice: parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse; 4. Paul's practice: discerning ecstasies in practice; 5. The whole Paul: a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity.