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Miracles : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 9780198747215 0198747217 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press

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"Jesus turned water into wine, Mohammad split the moon into two, and Buddha walked and spoke immediately upon birth. According to recent statistics, even in the present age of advanced science and technology, most people believe in miracles. In fact, newspapers and television regularly report alleged miracles, such as recoveries from incurable diseases, extremely unlikely coincidences, and religious signs and messages on unexpected objects. In this book the award-winning author and philosopher Yujin Nagasawa addresses some of our most fundamental questions concerning miracles. What exactly is a miracle? What types of miracles are believed in the world's great religions? What do recent scientific findings tell us about miracles? Can we rationally believe that miracles have really taken place? Can there be acts that are more religiously significant than miracles? Drawing on a vast variety of fascinating examples from across the major religions, Nagasawa discusses the lively debate on miracles that ranges from reported miracles in ancient scriptures in the East and West to cutting-edge scientific research on belief formation."--Publisher information.


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Het ongewone alledaagse : over zwarte katten, horoscopen en miraculeuze genezingen.
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ISBN: 9033442833 Year: 1999 Publisher: Leuven Acco

L'homme et le miracle dans la France médiévale : XIe-XIIe siècle
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ISBN: 2204023159 9782204023153 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : Les Editions du Cerf,


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The Cambridge companion to miracles
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ISBN: 9780521728515 9780521899864 0521899869 0521728517 9780511976391 Year: 2011 Volume: *23 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues"--


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Heiligen en hun wonderen : uit de marge van ons erfgoed, van de late middeleeuwen tot heden
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ISBN: 9789055737338 905573733X Year: 2008 Publisher: Budel Damon


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Wunder sind Tatsachen : eine Dokumentation aus Heiligsprechungsakten.
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ISBN: 3717106252 3853291112 Year: 1976 Publisher: Würzburg Naumann

Plots of epiphany
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ISBN: 3110182661 3110915618 9783110915617 9783110182668 Year: 2004 Volume: 131 Publisher: Berlin New York

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Der Autor vergleicht die drei Erzählungen der Apostelgeschichte über Gefängnisausbrüche mit anderen Befreiungswundern in griechisch-römischen und jüdischen Mythen. Eine Analyse dieser Geschichten und ihrer konventionellen Darstellung göttlicher Epiphanie und Kultbegründung ermöglicht neue Einblicke in den kulturellen Kontext und die narrative Darstellung frühchristlicher Geschichte in der Apostelgeschichte. Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.

Urchristliche Wundergeschichten : ein Beitrag zur Formgeschichtlichen Erforschung der synoptischen Evangelien
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ISBN: 3579044788 9783579044781 Year: 1990 Volume: 8 Publisher: Gütersloh Mohn


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De terugkeer van het wonder : het bovennatuurlijke op het einde van de eeuw.
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ISBN: 9061529786 9789061529781 9789024287093 902428709X Year: 1997 Volume: 20 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds

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Jos Vranckx neemt de lezer mee op een fascinerende verkenningstocht door het land van het wonder. Hij legt verassende verbanden en trekt parallellen met historische en culturele trends. En hij antwoordt ook op vragen als welk beeld van Jezus blijft overeind? wat is de betekenis van het mirakel in het christendom? kan geloof werkelijk genezen? wat moeten we denken van de profetieën van Nostradamus en andere apocalypitsche boodschappen? bestaat de geest van het Kwaad? komen engelen os te hulp?

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