TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farley,William O
TI  - The relevance of miracle to the modern world church mission /By William O. Farley, Jr
AV  - BV4070 .R454 1955
PY  - 1955///
KW  - Columbia Bible College
KW  - Dissertations
KW  - Miracles
KW  - Missions
N1  - Typescript; Introduction; I. Preliminary Considerations; II. Possibility: The Philosophical Issue; III. Probability: The Spirit of Biblical Teaching; IV. Miracle and Experience; V. Miracle and the Missionary; Conclusion; List of Appendices; Bibliography: leaves 105-114; Importance of miracle --; Definition Hypothesis --; Criteria in examination --; Necessity of study --; Author's position; Diffusion of miracles in the primitive Church --; The immediate cessation view --; Gradual cessation theory --; Continuance position --; View of Fathers; Interpretation of experience --; Miracle in Biblical history --; Scriptures on cessation --; Gradual cessation view refuted --; Warfield's "credentials" view --; The "credentials" view refuted --; Warfield's analysis of testimony --; The Marcon "appendix" --; A "given" for the study; The self-revealing nature of God --; Divine beneficence --; Purpose of miracle --; Miracles of communication --; Miracles of attestation --- Miracles of judgment --; Miracles of beneficence --; Purpose not static --; Pertinence to missions today; Validity of appeal to experience --; Tests for miracle --; Apprehension by faith --; Two testimonies; Missionary as instructor --; Missionary as arbiter --; Missionary as instrument --; Benefits of miracles --; Dangers involved --; The issue in perspective; Possibility --; Probability --; Apprehension by faith --; Chief benefit of the study --; emergence of attitude; Definition of Some Basic Terms: Miracle; Charismata --; The Present Status of the Problem --; The Divine Healing Issue --; Tongues as a Contemporary Phenomenon --; The Problem of Mark 16:9-20 --; Middleton's Work; 2
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