A MYSTICAL READING OF PAUL

  • Celia Kourie Department of Christian Spirituality Church History and Missiology University of South Africa
Keywords: Pauline Mysticism, ‘In-Christ’, Biblical Spirituality

Abstract

The methodological diversity in biblical hermeneutics that has taken place during the last few decades has effected a shift of such magnitude, that scholars are still catching their breath. New methods of interpreting scripture continue to come to the fore. There is a major move from a mechanistic to a holistic paradigm, from within which scripture emerges as life-giving and transformative. Constructive or ecological postmodernism contributes to the revalorization of the aesthetic, the mythological and the mystical. A mystical reading of Paul, with particular reference to his understanding of the term in Christ elucidates the value of this new, yet ancient heuristic tool.
Published
2013-06-12
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Articles