Miracles And Supernatural Religion
Whiton's examination of how theological understanding of miracles evolved during the nineteenth century, arguing for an ethical understanding of supernatural religion that goes beyond merely treating miracles as evidential proofs of Christianity.
11 Chapters
Table of Contents
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PREFATORY NOTE
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INTRODUCTORY
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II SYNOPSIS.--The present net results of the discussion of the miraculous element in the Bible.--Evaporation of the former evidential value of miracles.--Further insistence on this value a logical blunder.--The transfer of miracles from the artillery to t
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III SYNOPSIS.--Arbitrary criticism of the Biblical narratives of the raising of the |dead.|--Facts which it ignores.--The subject related to the phenomena of trance
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IV SYNOPSIS.--A clearer conception of miracle approached.--Works of Jesus once reputed miraculous not so reputed now
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V SYNOPSIS.--Biblical miracles the effluence of extraordinary lives.--Life the world's magician and miracle worker; its miracles now termed prodigies.--Miracle the natural product of an extraordinary endowment of life.--Life the ultimate reality.--What an
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VI SYNOPSIS.--The question, both old and new, now confronting theologians.--Their recent retreat upon the minimum of miracle.--The present conflict of opinion in the Church.--Its turning-point reached in the antipodal turn-about in the treatment of miracl
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VII SYNOPSIS.--Account to be made of the law of atrophy through disuse.--The virgin birth and the corporeal resurrection of Jesus
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VIII SYNOPSIS.--The cardinal point in the present discussion
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New Testament Handbooks
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Transcriber's Note (Significant Amendments):