Product Description

In The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, Albert Schweitzer goes against Luther and the Protestant tradition to look at what Paul actually writes in the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians about the personal experience of the believer with the divine. Paul's mysticism was not like the mysticism elsewhere described as a soul being at one with God. In the mysticism he felt and encouraged, there is no loss of self but an enriching of it; no erasure of time or place but a comprehension of how time and place fit within the eternal. Schweitzer writes that Paul's mysticism is especially profound, liberating, and precise. Typically, Schweitzer introduces readers to his point of view at once, then describes in detail how he came to it, what its scholarly antecedents were, what its implications are, what objections have been raised to it, and why all of this matters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #806260 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-09
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 440 pages

Review

"[The book's] fourteen chapters deal with the distinctive character of Pauline mysticism, wheter it was Hellenistic or Judaic, the Pauline epistles, the eschatological doctrine of redemption,... and the permanent elements in Paul's mysticism." -- New Testament Abstracts

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952. Although he proved himself highly gifted in science, theology, and music, and as an author, Schweitzer dedicated the later part of his life to medicine and to a hospital he founded in French Equatorial Africa. A true humanitarian, he used his Nobel Prize stipend to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. His other titles available from Johns Hopkins University Press include The Quest of the Historical Jesus, The Primeval Forest, and Out of My Life and Thought.

Customer Reviews

Pauline Mystiism
What a book! A very scholarly reference by the famous Albert Schweitzer on the Mysticism of Saint Paul in his witings in the New Testament. This is not a sit down and read book, but one that must be used as reference material, and read along with your Bible. It's focus is on the Believers Union with Christ, and will provide a lifetime of study and thought.