The Rationality of Miracles Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? A MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science, Ian Hutchinson, IVP, 2018 (ISBN 978-0-8308-4547-7), viii + 288 pp., pb 20 Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience, Daniel Maria Klimek, Oxford University Press, 2018 (ISBN 978-0-19-067920-0), xiv + 378 pp., hb £64
The term ‘miracle’ comes from the Latin ‘miror’, that is ‘to be amazed at’. So a miracle indicates something going much beyond the ordinary course of nature and violating natural laws. The idea of miracles as rational events emerges from the contents of those books. Although the authors delve into t...
| Published in: | Reviews in religion and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2019
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Reviews in religion and theology
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| Review of: | Medjugorje and the supernatural (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019) (Giostra, Alessandro)
Medjugorje and the supernatural (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018) (Giostra, Alessandro) |
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B mystical experiences B Miracles B Medjugorje B limits of science B science and faith |
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| Summary: | The term ‘miracle’ comes from the Latin ‘miror’, that is ‘to be amazed at’. So a miracle indicates something going much beyond the ordinary course of nature and violating natural laws. The idea of miracles as rational events emerges from the contents of those books. Although the authors delve into that intriguing subject from different perspectives, they ground their views upon a common epistemological approach including historical witnesses, Christian revelation, and the limits of the scientific discourse. Miracles form part of the ongoing discussion on the science–faith relationship, and opinions about mystical experiences cannot exclude an exact definition of science and faith. Our society is dominated by science and technology, and the widely held negative perception of miracles is deeply influenced by a naturalistic mentality. A clear-cut distinction between the rationality of natural research and the uncertainty of religion proves unsuccessful to account for events which science cannot explain. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.13640 |