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Miracles : an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion / Karen R. Zwier, David L. Weddle, Timothy D. Knepper, editors.

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Book
Contributor:
Zwier, Karen R., editor.
Weddle, David L. (David Leroy), 1942- editor.
Knepper, Timothy D., editor.
ProQuest ebook central
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
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Restricted for use by site license.

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