MiraclesDo Miracles Really Happen? In Miracles, C.S. Lewis argues that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation. Using his charismatic warmth, lucidity, and wit, Lewis challenges the rationalists and cynics who are mired in their lack of imagination and provides a poetic and joyous affirmation that miracles really do occur in everyday lives. |
Contents
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the cardinal difficulty of naturalism | 17 |
nature and supernature | 37 |
a further difficulty in naturalism | 53 |
answers to misgivings | 61 |
a chapter of red herrings | 71 |
miracles and the laws of nature | 87 |
a chapter not strictly necessary | 99 |
horrid red things | 107 |
christianity and religion | 129 |
the propriety of miracles | 151 |
on probability | 159 |
the grand miracle | 173 |
miracles of the old creation | 215 |
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admit argument atoms become behaviour believe billiard balls body C. S. Lewis called Nature cause chapter character Christ Chronicles of Narnia conception Corn-King course created Creation creature death Divine Earth eternal Euston Station everything evil existence experience fact false feel ghost God’s going Grief Observed ground hand happened Heaven human Humpty Humpty Dumpty idea images imagine improbable Incarnation inference interlocked Jahweh Jesus kind laws of Nature less limpets living Man’s matter mean ment mental Mere Christianity merely metaphorical mind miracles mode modern moral judgements Naturalist Nature’s never occur once organism Pantheism particular pattern perhaps philosophical picture position prayer present probable question reality reason redemption relation religion Resurrection Screwtape Letters seen self-existent sense Sheol simply sort space spermatozoon spirit story supernatural Supernaturalist suppose tautology Testament tion true truth turn uniformity universe Virgin Birth whole words