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Hume, David --- Miracles. --- Hume, David, - 1711-1776.

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Folklore --- votive offerings --- miracles --- children [people by age group] --- Ghent

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Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. Arguing that these criticisms have--from the very start--rested on misreadings, Robert Fogelin begins by providing a narrative of the way Hume's argument actually unfolds. What Hume's critics (and even some of his defenders) have failed to see is that Hume's primary argument depends on fixing the appropriate standards of evaluating testimony presented on behalf of a miracle. Given the definition of a miracle, Hume quite reasonably argues that the standards for evaluating such testimony must be extremely high. Hume then argues that, as a matter of fact, no testimony on behalf of a religious miracle has even come close to meeting the appropriate standards for acceptance. Fogelin illustrates that Hume's critics have consistently misunderstood the structure of this argument--and have saddled Hume with perfectly awful arguments not found in the text. He responds first to some early critics of Hume's argument and then to two recent critics, David Johnson and John Earman. Fogelin's goal, however, is not to "bash the bashers," but rather to show that Hume's treatment of miracles has a coherence, depth, and power that makes it still the best work on the subject.

Miracles. --- Hume, David, --- Mirakels --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Miracles --- Hume, David --- Hume, David, - 1711-1776.

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Old French literature --- Gautier de Coinci --- Miracles in literature. --- Gautier, --- Gautier de Coinci. --- Gautier de Coincy --- Ernous li Viele --- de Coincy, Gautier --- de Coinci, Gautier --- Miracles in literature --- Miracles dans la littérature

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Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, Physica Sacra , Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.

Science --- Bible --- Miracles --- Bible and science. --- Bible et sciences --- Biblical teaching. --- Enseignement biblique --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Bible and science --- Biblical teaching --- Miracles - Biblical teaching