David Seal

Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John's Apocalypse

Emotions, Empathy, and Engagement with God

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Produktbeschreibung

Prayer as Divine Experience examines the emotional language in the prayer preludes contained in 4 Ezra and the hymns recounted in John's Apocalypse. Based on studies in neuropsychology, readers or hearers of the emotional language could potentially achieve a divine experience similar to what is described in this literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780761869252
• ISBN-10: 0761869255
• Artikelnr.: 48379867

Autorenporträt

David Seal is an instructor at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to having written many scholarly articles, he is the author of Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John's Apocalypse: Emotions, Empathy, and Engagement with God (2017), and coauthor of Performing Scripture (2019) and World Mythology (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Chapter 1
Introduction Chapter 2
Orality, Neuroscience, Performance and Emotions Chapter 3
Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra Chapter 4
Prayer as Divine Experience in John's Apocalypse Chapter 5
Conclusion Bibliography