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Miracles : a preliminary study / by C.S. Lewis. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Macmillan Company, (c)1947.Description: 220 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780020867609
  • 9780060653019
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT97.R853.M573 1947
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The naturalist and the supernaturalist -- The self-contradiction of the naturalist -- Nature and supernature -- A further difficulty in naturalism -- Answers to misgivings -- A chapter of red herrings -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- A chapter not strictly necessary -- 'Horrid red things' -- Christianity and 'religion' -- The propriety of miracles -- On probability -- The grand miracle -- Miracles of the old creation -- Miracles of the new creation -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: On the words 'spirit' and 'spiritual' -- Appendix B: On 'special providences'.
Subject: "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my readers in a position to do so. It is no use going to the texts until we have some idea about the possibility or probability of the miraculous. Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely wasting their time by looking into the texts: we know in advance what results they will find for they have begun by begging the question." [Introduction.
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With revised chapter 3--cf. Hooper.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The scope of this book -- The naturalist and the supernaturalist -- The self-contradiction of the naturalist -- Nature and supernature -- A further difficulty in naturalism -- Answers to misgivings -- A chapter of red herrings -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- A chapter not strictly necessary -- 'Horrid red things' -- Christianity and 'religion' -- The propriety of miracles -- On probability -- The grand miracle -- Miracles of the old creation -- Miracles of the new creation -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: On the words 'spirit' and 'spiritual' -- Appendix B: On 'special providences'.

Hooper, Walter, A bibliography of the writings of C.S. Lewis, from Remembering C.S. Lewis : Recollections of those who knew him, edited by James T. Como, (c)18

"This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my readers in a position to do so. It is no use going to the texts until we have some idea about the possibility or probability of the miraculous. Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely wasting their time by looking into the texts: we know in advance what results they will find for they have begun by begging the question." [Introduction.

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