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Miracles : an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion / Karen R. Zwier, David L. Weddle, Timothy D. Knepper, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Comparative philosophy of religion ; v. 3.
- Comparative philosophy of religion ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miracles--Philosophy.
- Miracles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I: Miracles in Religious Traditions
- Chapter 2: How to Tell a Miracle Story: The Amazing Deeds of Young Krishna
- Chapter 3: Inconvenient Wonders: Ambivalence in Hasidism about the Miraculous Powers of the Tsaddik
- Chapter 4: Quranic Miracle Stories: Surprising Implications for Theodicy, Transience, and Freedom
- Chapter 5: Expecting the Unexpected: Pentecostal Miracles as Performance, Production, and Placeholder
- Part II: Miracles in Polemics
- Chapter 6: On Miracles in the Vimalakirti Sutra during Early Medieval Period of China
- Chapter 7: "By Whose Authority?" Polemical and Political Uses of Miracle Stories
- Part III: Miracles of Healing
- Chapter 8: Miracle as Natural: A Contemporary Chinese American Religious Healer
- Chapter 9: What Miracles in the Global South Contribute to Understanding the Human Condition
- Part IV: Miracles and Morality
- Chapter 10: The Ethics of Wonder: Miracles, Magic, and Morality in Devotional Hinduism
- Chapter 11: Miracles: Two Lakota Case Studies
- Part V: Miracles, Logic, and Science
- Chapter 12: Miracles in Philosophical Analysis
- Chapter 13: Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 14 Miracles and the Uniformity of Nature
- Chapter 15: Investigating Miracles
- Part VI: Miracles and Mysticism
- Chapter 16: Changed in a Flash: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God, and Came Back to Dream the Future
- Part VII: Comparative Conclusions
- Chapter 17: On the Epistemic Function of Miracles
- Chapter 18: Miracles: So What?.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: MIRACLES.
- ISBN:
- 9783031148651
- 3031148657
- Publisher Number:
- 99992174664
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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