Miracle Definitions - Evaluation

Question 1

(Aquinas) Aquinas suggests an _ God, however this implies God otherwise is just a spectator in human affairs who watches us struggle and doesn’t help, which is contrary to his “loving father” view

Answer 1

Interventionist

Question 2

(Aquinas) His argument is based on the idea that _ breaks natural laws, but we do not know all the natural laws nor for certain how they operate and therefore cannot tell if one has actually been broken

Answer 2

God

Question 3

(Holland) His interpretation makes miracles entirely dependant on _ interpretation, if one person says it is a miracle and other say it is not, how are we to judge?

Answer 3

personal

Question 4

(Hume) Hume never states how he would respond if he had a _ _

Answer 4

religious experience

Question 5

(Holland) Any _ definition of a miracle requires objective rather than subjective criteria

Answer 5

valid

Question 6

(Aquinas) Many consider his definition _ as he links miracles with divine cause, rather than laws of nature

Answer 6

inadequate

Question 7

(Hume) his definition of a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of a deity implies God is going _ his own laws

Answer 7

against

Question 8

(Hume) McKinnon states that violating a law of nature is contradictory as they do not say how things actually happen. We should replace natural law with the phrase _ _ _ _ _

Answer 8

The actual course of events

Question 9

(Aquinas) An interventionist God doesn’t fit with the classical view of God as _, also God does not intervene in events such as the holocaust.

Answer 9

sustainer

Question 10

(Aquinas) If God as according to classical theism was _, he would have forseen the consequences of the laws of nature and extended them to allow for miraculous events with consitency

Answer 10

omniscient

Question 11

(Hume) Hume’s definition lacks any actual _ to the purpose of miracles

Answer 11

purpose