Cambridge Companion to Miracles

Klappentext Provides a comparative study of miracles in the major world religions and explores the value of miracles in religious belief. Zusammenfassung Written by international experts! this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in the major world religions! as well as older! indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our diverse and secular culture! and of the value of miracles in religious belief. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction: miracle in an age of diversity Graham Twelftree; Part I. Fundamental Issues: 1. What is a miracle? David Basinger; 2. Meanings of miracles Robert Larmer; Part II. Miracles in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: 3. The Hebrew Bible R. Walter L. Moberly; 4. Classical culture to the Romans Robert Garland; 5. Second Temple and early Rabbinic Judaism Lidija Novakovic; 6. Jesus Barry L. Blackburn; 7. Miracle in early Christianity James Carleton Paget; 8. The Middle Ages Benedicta Ward; Part III. Miracles and Major Religions: 9. Traditional religions Fiona Bowie; 10. Hinduism Gavin Flood; 11. Islam David Thomas; 12. Buddhism Rupert Gethin; 13. Christianity Ralph Del Colle; 14. Judaism Kenneth Seeskin; Part IV. Miracle Today: 15. A history of the debates on miracle Colin Brown; 16. Philosophers on miracle Michael P. Levine; 17. Patient belief in miraculous healing - positive or negative coping resource Niels Christian Hvidt.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Graham H Twelftree, Graham H. Twelftree
• Mitarbeit: Graham H. Twelftree (Herausgeber), Graham H. (Regent University Twelftree (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521728515
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72851-5
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Religi; Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge Companions to Religi; Cambridge companion
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke