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In the course of the discussion to this point, attention has been confined to the sense of the term miracle which is most commonly taken for granted and whose derivation springs, most obviously, from the biblical narratives of such (putative) happenings. In continuing the argument, it will be the object of the present chapter to explore the possibility of extending the idea, as developed so far, beyond the historical/theological constraints of its traditional connotation.
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Schniewind, ‘A Reply to Bultmann’ (1943), Kerygma and Myth, I, pp. 45–101, p. 51 (my interpolations).
Thielicke, ‘The Restatement of New Testament Mythology’, Kerygma and Myth, I, pp. 138–74, pp. 174, 173.
Landrum, ‘What a Miracle Really Is’, Religious Studies Vol. 12 (1976), pp. 49–57, pp. 52–3.
Schopenhauer, ‘Versuch über das Geistersehn und was damit zusammenhängt’, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), Sämtliche Werke (Wiesbaden: Brokhaus, 1960) V, pp. 239–329: trans. E. F. J. Payne, ’Essay on Spirit Seeing and everything connected therewith’ Parerga and Paralipomena (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974) 2 vols., I, pp. 227–309, p. 266.
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Williams, T.C. (1990). Miracles as a Mode of the Super-normal. In: The Idea of the Miraculous. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20848-7_5
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