Miracles Flashcards
Anti Realist
Lifts spirit/ Community
Interpreted by mind/ personal
Not violation of law
Tillich
AR - doesn’t violate laws
God is Being itself
‘Sign-event’
Can’t be divorced from religious context
Holland
AR
“beneficial coincidence”
Child railway
Interpretation as religious
Criticism of Holland and Tillich
C.S Lewis - trilemma
Jesus “I am son of God” - false (madman/liar) or true
Ward
AR
personal/ “subjective”
“astonishes me”
“cannot be interpreted in terms of supernatural”
Wiles
AR - God does not do miracles
need to move away God - puppet master
language symbolic
only miracle - creation
Wiles Quotes
realist - “highly selective”
“direct intervention of God… have disatrous implications… problem of evil”
Realist
Real events by transcendent God
Toronto Blessing
world is mind-independent
Swinbune - incarnation
Hick
Have to be religiously significant
revelatory
“vividly and immediately conscious of God”
Hume’s argument and what he believes about religion
Inductive
“a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
assumes religion - factual claims believers - true
attacks literal truths (pre enlightenment)
Hume’s definition
Definition - violation of a law of nature by God
maximally impossible - walk on water (Tacitus?)
Humans credulous (willing)
religion “end to common sense”
Hume positive and negative
postitive - Bible very different to present - reason
negative - very little religious impact on religious belief
