https://doi.org/10.56898/st.15657
The article attempts a reinterpretation of three New Testament pericopes (Acts 9:1-19; 2 Cor 12:1-10; Gal 1:11-17) as texts constitutive of the mystical experience of the Apostle Paul. This experience is read as a multidimensional theophany—an event grounded in grace and permeated by its action, manifesting itself in the beatifying presence of the Risen One, who, in the paschal gift, introduces the believer into the ineffable reality of the „third heaven”. This encounter reveals corporeality as the space of transformation — transformed, up to the borders of deification, determined on the one hand by the dynamics of Christological assimilation, and on the other – by existential purification. Rooted in the horizon of Revelation, this experience radically reconfigures human identity, transferring it from the order of creation to the salvific reality and thus establishing the ontological possibility of transformation within the very structure of existence. The analysis is based on the methodological triangulation of three paradigms: the phenomenology of religion (James, Frankl), depth psychology (Jung), and transcendental hermeneutics (Ricoeur, Rahner). In this perspective, Paul’s mystical experience reveals a paradoxical structure: just as happiness is not the effect of intentional striving but the fruit of an existence lived in accordance with the dignity of the person, so too the mystical vision is granted as a gift—beyond merit and beyond any predisposition.
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