Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic
Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic

Author: Harvey D. Egan SJ

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1725291525

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Harvey Egan argues that the apostle Paul was Christianity's earliest mystic, and the world's greatest missionary, one whom scholars estimate walked over fifteen hundred miles--not to mention his dangerous sea journeys--to plant the flag of Lord Jesus in Roman colonies where Caesar was supposedly lord. This book stresses Paul's mystical consciousness and mystical life--the explicit and direct consciousness of the immediate and direct presence of the Trinity and/or Jesus-Messiah. It underscores mystical experience not only as discrete, individual experiences but also as experience in the sense that an experienced musician instinctively knows and loves music. From the light issuing from the risen Jesus-Messiah, whom he encountered on the Damascus road, Paul mystically read the Jewish Scriptures and comprehended that God consummated Israel's history through the sending of Jesus-Messiah and the Holy Spirit. Paul's letters are paradigmatic of the earliest use of the word "mystical," that is, how the Jewish Scriptures disclose Jesus-Messiah. Thus, Paul, the zealous Jewish Pharisee, grew to understand Christianity as Judaism perfected.

Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic
Paul: Christianity's Premier Apostolic Mystic

Author: Harvey D. Egan

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1725291517

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Harvey Egan argues that the apostle Paul was Christianity’s earliest mystic, and the world’s greatest missionary, one whom scholars estimate walked over fifteen hundred miles—not to mention his dangerous sea journeys—to plant the flag of Lord Jesus in Roman colonies where Caesar was supposedly lord. This book stresses Paul’s mystical consciousness and mystical life—the explicit and direct consciousness of the immediate and direct presence of the Trinity and/or Jesus-Messiah. It underscores mystical experience not only as discrete, individual experiences but also as experience in the sense that an experienced musician instinctively knows and loves music. From the light issuing from the risen Jesus-Messiah, whom he encountered on the Damascus road, Paul mystically read the Jewish Scriptures and comprehended that God consummated Israel’s history through the sending of Jesus-Messiah and the Holy Spirit. Paul’s letters are paradigmatic of the earliest use of the word “mystical,” that is, how the Jewish Scriptures disclose Jesus-Messiah. Thus, Paul, the zealous Jewish Pharisee, grew to understand Christianity as Judaism perfected.

Paul, the Mystic; a Study in Apostolic Experience
Paul, the Mystic; a Study in Apostolic Experience

Author: James Mann Campbell

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781230289533

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE MESSAGE OF PAUL THE MYSTIC TO THE CHURCH OF TO-DAY. IN using the expression "according to my gospel," Paul felt that he had a message to give which was peculiarly his own, minted in his own mind, and stamped with his own individuality. It was a message which expressed what he had come to know and experience of Christ and of His religion. The fundamental facts which lay at the heart of it being historical, were fixed and unchangeable; but the message itself took shape from his own personality, as water takes the shape of the vessel into which it is poured. What Paul gives us is not a bare record of outward fact, but an interpretation of outward fact in the light of personal experience. The personal equation which enters into his message, and which makes it unlike any other, is that which gives to it its special value. It does not contain the whole truth, but it gives a distinct note, which is needed to make up the symphony of truth. The most personal and distinctive thing in Paul's message is undoubtedly the mystical element which underlies his juridical doctrine of justification by faith. Nor is this grafted on to it, but grows naturally out of it, inasmuch as the relationships involved in the soul's adjustment are spiritual and personal. Breaking up Paul's mystical message into its component parts, we find that it includes the following declarations: 1. That the formative thing in Christian experience is the personal contact of the soul of man with the living Redeemer.--In that supreme moment when Christ was revealed to him, and entered with saving power into his life, the mystical message of Paul was born. The mystical, transcendental Christ was henceforth the only Christ he knew, the only Christ he sought to make...

Paul the Mystic
Paul the Mystic

Author: James M. Campbell

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781497810563

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

Paul's Ascent to Paradise
Paul's Ascent to Paradise

Author: James D Tabor

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-19

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Paul makes the singular claim to have been the "last but not the least" of the Apostles of Jesus. Paul never met Jesus, but he makes high claims for his experiences of mystical revelations that include his ascent to heaven and his claim to not only have "seen" Jesus in his glory, but to have regularly communicated with the one he calls the Risen Christ. Early Christianity, as it unfolds, stands or falls on the claims of this single man whose Message and Mission are distinct from that of James, Peter, and John. In this book Paul's Ascent to Paradise becomes an entrée into his whole world of Hellenistic mystical religious experience. This "history of religions" approach to Paul supersedes the dogmatic approaches of Christian theology and dogma. It is refreshing, gripping, dramatic, bold and fascinating. For Paul the "appointed time of the end had grown very short," to use his words. Everything has to be viewed through that apocalyptic lens and one is transported back to Paul's social world, the "battles of the apostles," and either his triumph or his failure--depending on the judgment of history.

Paul, the Mystic
Paul, the Mystic

Author: James Mann Campbell

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781289598310

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St. Paul and the Mystic Way
St. Paul and the Mystic Way

Author: Evelyn Underhill

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781425335182

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