Miracles : a preliminary study

Abstract

A Touchstone book

Includes index

1. The scope of this book -- 2. The naturalist and the supernaturalist -- 3. The cardinal difficulty of naturalism -- 4. Nature and supernature -- 5. A further difficulty in naturalism -- 6. Answers to misgivings -- 7. A chapter of red herrings -- 8. Miracles and the laws of nature -- 9. A chapter not strictly necessary -- 10. Horrid red things -- 11. Christianity and "religion" -- 12. The propriety of miracles -- 13. On probability -- 14. The grand miracle -- 15.Miracles of the old creation -- 16. Miracles of the new creation -- 17. Epilogue